EEA core set of indicators

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EEA core set of indicators

• Anita Pirc Velkavrh
• Workshop on the Use of Environmental indicators
• July 5-6, 2004, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

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Why do we need international indicators?

• Data always come from countries
• What they are used for?
• Country purposes
• Develop and monitor country policies
• Support public administration
• Support business decisions
• Enhance Citizens awareness
• International purposes (comparable statistics)
• Country performance against comparators
• Ensure and enhance economic competitiveness
• Monitor social, economic and environmental
  development
• Improve national participation in international
  decision making and resource allocation

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Role of indicator

• Indicator data
• High level measures perceived to be related to
  some aspects of environmental well beingthey
  point at problem, but also wider picture is
  needed
• Conventions, policies set goals for well being
• -? monitor ? report (role in policy cycle)

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Policy question indicator rationale-assessment-k
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• Countries data are used to support this chain
• Indicators should be relevant and detect changes
  and developments toward targets
• Collection of data should be justified with
  useful outputs
• Indicators bring together policy-environment-scien
  ce

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Policy model for EEA CSI

• Relevant set of useful indicators is based on
  balanced policy priorities - scientific
  capacities - country capacities
• EEA convened 2 years of balancing process
  together with countries and managed to get
  endorsement of EEA Management board (31
  countries, DG Environment, Parliament) for 37
  indicators in March 2004

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CSI EU policy relevantbut not only

• Endorsed by more that EU 25
• 3 EFTA countries
• 3 candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)
  
• Supported for implementation in 5 Balkan
  countries, Switzerland, Monaco
• Used in EEA reporting broader than EU reports
  support to Belgrade report

and
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already now 17 CSI substantialy uses
international data sources

• UNECE/CLRTAP/EMEP
• UNFCCC
• Vienna convention on protection of ozon layer
  -Montreal protocol
• Bern convention
• World meteorological office
• HELCOM convention(Baltic sea)
• Black Sea convention
• ICES (International Council for exploation of
  Seas)
• FAO

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The purpose of EEACore Set of Indicators (CSI)

• to provide a stable and manageable basis for
  indicator reporting by EEA
• to prioritise improvements in data quality from
  countries to European level
• to streamline contributions to other indicator
  initiatives
• in doing so, to strengthen environmental
  dimension alongside economic and social
  dimensions

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The history of theCore set of indicators
1st phase ? July 2002 400 indicators relevant to policy objectives and distributed across DPSIR
2nd phase. ? May 2003 350 indicators relevant to policy objectives and distributed across DPSIR
3rd phase. ? February 2004 37 indicators relevant to policy targets and data availability
Wide consultation with EIONET community Less
engagement by policy community
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Getting from 350 to 37The criteria

• Core indicator should
• be policy relevant - support EU policies
  priority issues of increasing policy relevance
  (on the basic of available EU policy
  documentation, DG environment work programme..)
• monitor progress toward the quantified targets
  (if there is no targets, then use thresholds)
• be based on ready available and routinely
  collected data for EEA countries within specified
  timescale at reasonable cost-benefit ratio

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Getting from 350 to 37The criteria

• be consistent in space coverage and cover all or
  most of EEA countries
• have sufficient time coverage (exemptions of
  general nature to be verified e.g. situation of
  candidate countries)
• be primarily national in scale and
  representative for countries (countries
  benchmarking)
• be understandable and simple
• be conceptually and methodologically well founded
  and representative (to be used by at least one
  community or international organization) and on
  the bases of well established consultation with
  countries

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Getting from 350 to 37The criteria

• be of priority in EEA management plan
• be timely (be produced in reasonable and useful
  time)
• be well documented and of known quality

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Number of indicators per topic

• Air quality (5)
• Ozone depletion (1)
• Climate change (4)
• Biodiversity (3)
• Terrestrial (2)
• Water (7)
• Waste (2)

• Agriculture (2)
• Energy (5)
• Fisheries (3)
• Transport (3)
• Total 37

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The future evaluation of the Core set of
indicators

• CSI will be stable not static - 1st review
  scheduled June 2005
• MS demands for more indicators on topics like
  noise, chemicals, health
• MS demands for better indicators for example on
  biodiversity and water

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Climate change indicators

• Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
• Projection of greenhouse gas emissions and
  removals and policies and measures
• Global and European temperature
• Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations

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Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
Reporting obligation in ROD (Reporting Obligation
Database)
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Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
The Central Data Repository (CDR) contains
country deliveries
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Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
Example of the compiled data from the countries
in the data set in the Data service
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Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
EEA DATA SERVICE Storage of the data needed for
the indicator
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Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
Emissions of the six greenhouse gases fell by 2
between 1990 and 1998. However, they are
projected to fall by only 1 by 2010 (compared to
1990 levels), with carbon dioxide emissions
increasing by 3 to 4, methane emissions
decreasing by 30, and nitrous oxide emissions
decreasing by 16. Fluorinated gas emissions are
projected to increase by 60 to 70 (compared to
1995
Distance to target
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Countries benchmarking