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• Cutting air pollution in Europe would prevent early deaths, improve productivity and curb climate change

  16 octobre, par Antti Pekka Kaartinen — premature deaths, air quality, environment and health, industry, air quality directive, agriculture, transport

  

  Europe’s air is getting cleaner but persistent pollution, especially in cities, still damages people’s health and the economy. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new analysis on air quality shows that exposure to air pollution caused about 400,000 premature deaths in the European Union (EU) in 2016.

• New challenges facing Europe’s waste water treatment plants present opportunities for improving sustainability

  9 octobre, par Cornelis Brand — waste water management, urban waste water, climate change, urban waste water treatment directive, uwwt directive, freshwater consumption

  

  More investment is needed to make urban waste water treatment plants fit to meet the difficult challenges posed by the impacts of climate change, as well as the presence of antibiotics and other micro-pollutants in waste water, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing published today.

• Europe’s circular economy still in its infancy

  1er octobre, par Antti Pekka Kaartinen — resource efficiency, circular economy

  

  Circular material use can minimise waste and resource extraction, improve resource efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to conserving biodiversity. However, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report, published today, circular economy initiatives in Europe are still at an early stage and would benefit from more investments in upscaling promising innovations and in monitoring progress towards circularity.

• Protecting Europe’s land and soil resources is fundamental for a sustainable future

  30 septembre, par Antti Pekka Kaartinen — soil, land use, agriculture, soil contamination

  

  Land and soil underpin life on our planet. The way we currently use these vital and finite resources in Europe is not sustainable. Human activities — growing cities and infrastructure networks, intensive agriculture, pollutants and greenhouse gases released to the environment — transform Europe’s landscapes and exert increasing pressure on land and soil. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) Signals 2019, published today, looks at a series of issues linked to land and soil, including links to climate change, agriculture, soil biodiversity, contamination and governance, and stresses why we need to manage them sustainably.

• Gap between real-world and type-approval emissions undermines incentives for cleaner cars

  24 septembre, par Antti Pekka Kaartinen — passenger cars, new passenger car emissions, transport, electric cars

  

  Incentives to promote fuel-efficient cars have not always resulted in expected emission reductions, due to the growing gap between real-world and type approval emissions. However, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, incentives that boost the uptake of electric vehicles considerably reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions.

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