EU Scorecard on Environment Published
by Christine Lepisto, Berlin on 03. 1.08
The EU has rated only one of ten key environmental indicators as green, and four as orange, leaving five issues in the red zone in a new publication reviewing .2007 EU Environmental Performance (pdf). But as can be seen in the graph image here: where the EU is not meeting internal goals set by the Sixth Environment Action Programme, the bloc is still a pacesetter for global performance. Priority areas of EU policy include not only climate change, but also nature and biodiversity; environment and health and quality of life, and natural resources and wastes.
EU actions on sustainable energy and bold energy plans exemplify the leadership which the fast-growing European Union demonstrates on the world stage. But the internal report card recently published shows that targets in
- Transport
- Electricity from Renewables
- Fisheries
- Biodiversity
- Urban Air Quality
are in danger of not being met. Only results in Air Emissions are on target to meet EU goals.
Via ::EU Environment
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