Sentences with phrase «european environmental agency»

(1) According to the latest projections by the European Environmental Agency the EU's domestic emissions were 17,5 % below the 1990 level in 2011.

The European Environmental Agency takes great care to remind us of their problems.

For public exposures — which would likely be widespread following SRM efforts — the EPA, European Environmental Agency (EEA), and World Health Organization specify regulatory standards for ambient air quality.

We don't like to talk about it — but it's high time we did: CO2 emissions of air travel are 20.5 times higher than train, per kilometer *, per passenger, according to the European Environmental Agency.

GlobCover is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative which began in 2005 in partnership with the Joint Research Center, European Environmental Agency, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UN Environment Programme, Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Cover Dynamics, and International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

According to the European Environmental Agency, more than 90 % of urban population in the EU is exposed to fine particle (PM2.5) and ozone pollution levels above the World Health Organisation guidelines.

That could change as the European Environmental Agency, under the European Commission, recently recommended that all EU countries introduce a drug classification system.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Debt - ridden Spain and Italy could hinder the European Union from achieving its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions under an international climate pact, the EU's environmental agency said Wednesday.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

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MUCH of the scientific data necessary for environmental management in Europe is inadequate, according to the new European Environment Agency.

«Key users of this data are environmental agencies [that] have to report on things like greenhouse gases,» says Claus Zehner, an ESA Earth observation application engineer, noting that the European Union (E.U.) continues to keep tabs on air quality over its member nations.

Although plastic debris is associated with some of the most persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the European Union, the debris is considered non-hazardous by policy makers.

Under the current E.U. system, authorization for GM crops occurs at the European level, after a health and environmental safety assessment by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in Parma, Italy.

Khan and his colleagues combined GNET data with ice thickness measurements taken by four different satellites: the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space Agency.

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency in 2011 proposed a set of criteria for the European Commission to use to identify EDCs.

This chemical is actually banned in the European Union — it is illegal for UK farmers to spray any crop intended for human consumption with chlorpyrifos as of 2016 — but the US Environmental Protection Agency has refused to ban it.

It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and surveys the current impacts and the targets published by environmental authorities, specifically the European Environment Agency.

Here are just a few... British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Energy Saving Trust (EST) Environmental Change Institute (ECI) European Space Agency (ESA) The Geological Society (GS) Grantham Institute for Climate Change (GICC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Met Office (MO) National Academy of Sciences (NAS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Oceanography Centre (NOC) The Royal Society (RS) Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (TCCCR) UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

The participants in the research workshop were: Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Denny Ellerman, Part - time Professor, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence H. Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Robert Hahn, Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford; Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Erin T. Mansur, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Albert McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian J. McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; W. David Montgomery, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting; Erich J. Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; John Parsons, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University Law School.

Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.

The letter was signed by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), European Environmental Bureau (EEB), WWF, Greenpeace, Quercus, Climate Action Network Europe (CAN - E), ECODES, Legambiente, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, Levegő Munkacsopor and Elliniki Etairia.

In a letter to EU Ministers, a group of 11 organisations, including the London - based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Greenpeace and WWF, called for Ministers to back a faster reduction in the amount of chemicals placed on the market and bans on their use in areas where alternatives are available.

Socio (s): Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration, Egis - BCEOM International, IAU - RIF, BRGM, Méteo - Maroc, Egyptian Meteorological Agency, Tunisian Meteorological Agency, Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Norwegian Trust Fund Private Sector and Infrastructure, European Space Agency, Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transportation, Egypt Environmental Affairs Agency, Morocco State Secretary for Water and the Environment, Wilaya of Greater Casablanca, Agency for the Development of the Bouregreg Valley, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Tunisia, Ministry of Development and International Cooperation of Tunisia, Municipality of Tunis

Eaarth, 9 Earth Day, 186 Earth First, 34 Earth Hour, 235 Earthquake, 72, 83, 217, 225 Earth Summit, 16, 36, 141, 182 Earth System Research Laboratory, 49 Eco-Imperialism, 40 Edenhofer, Ottmar, 37 Edison, Thomas, 211 Ehrlich, Anne, 18 Ehrlich, Paul, 18, 32, 185, 201 Einstein, Albert, 146 Eisenhower, Dwight, 172 Electricity, 18 - 21, 28, 38, 40 - 41, 43, 185, 187 - 188, 190 - 191, 194 - 201, 205, 214 - 215, 218 - 220, 228, 232, 234 - 235, 243 - 244, 246 Electric Reliability Council of Texas, 198 - 199 El Mundo, 228 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), 67 - 69, 74 Emanuel, Kerry, 116 - 118, 164 Emissions Trading System (ETS), 20, 41 - 44 Energiewende (Energy Transition), 216 Energy, density, 191, 195, 205 - 206, 209, 212, 226 usage, 38 - 39, 184, 187 - 189, 206, 244 - 245 Energy Information Administration, 187, 190 Engerts, Gail, 233 England (see United Kingdom) Environmental Defense Fund, 179 Environmental Investigation Agency, 42 EON Corporation, 192, 219 Epps, Pat, 107 - 108 Equator Principles, 40 Eric the Red, 56 Ethanol (see biofuel) Europe, 13, 16, 20, 22 - 23, 28 - 29, 32, 39, 42 - 44, 57 - 58, 62, 74, 120, 123, 126, 130, 132, 134 - 135, 176 - 177, 187, 191,197, 204, 209, 211, 214 - 217, 224, 242, 244 - 245 European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), 15, 180 European Commission, Community (EC), 16, 22, 36, 41, 43, 187, 203 - 204, 210, 241, 244 European Environment Agency, 209 European Union (EU), 18, 22, 25, 29 - 30, 42, 203 - 204, 206, 238 Evans, David, 89, 239 Extinction, species, 9 - 10, 52, 71 - 72, 133, 136, 138, 186 Exxon Mobil, 176, 190

Socio (s): FAO, UNDP, UNREDD, WB, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Government of the United Republic of Tanzania Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Forestry and Beekeeping Division, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Humane Society International, Life Web: Partnerships for Financing Protected Areas

December 12th, 2017 by James Ayre, Clean Technica, followed by https://cleantechnica.com/2017/12/11/plug-hybrids-can-cut-emissions-much-pure-electrics/ A new report from the European Energy Agency (EEA) on the state of Europe's progress to date on the achievement of climate and environmental goals relating to the transport sector has been released.

«Given the vast profits made by the European fluorochemical industry, it is absolutely scandalous that they are not destroying all HFC - 23 produced by their factories,» said Clare Perry, Senior Campaigner for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

RUAF's past and current main funding sources include the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS), the European Union, IDRC (Canada), UN Habitat / Ministry of Environment Norway, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), CDKN (UK), the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), CARE (Netherlands), Welthungerhilfe (Germany) and various municipalities and other organisations participating in the RUAF programmes and projects.

The report was prepared by Greenpeace, an environmental group, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, an industry group, and SolarPACES, an organization of national experts that works under the umbrella of the International Energy Agency.

British Council, British Petroleum, Broom's Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European CommunitiesCEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met.

Stopping in Brussels on a European speaking tour, Dennis Leaf, a senior adviser at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sought to ease European fears that the US will not be ready to sign up to a successor to the Kyoto Protocol if the Senate does not pass domestic climate legislation, including a cap - and - trade scheme, ahead of Copenhagen.

Two, in response to arguments from some climate change skeptics, many scientific organizations with expertise relevant to climate change have endorsed the consensus position that «most of the global warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities» including the following: • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Astronomical Society • American Chemical Society • American Geophysical Union • American Institute of Physics • American Meteorological Society • American Physical Society • Australian Coral Reef Society • Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO • British Antarctic Survey • Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences • Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Environmental Protection Agency • European Federation of Geologists • European Geosciences Union • European Physical Society • Federation of American Scientists • Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of Australia • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Royal Meteorological Society • Royal Society of the UK

The European Union's Energy Roadmap to 2050 and the US Environmental Protection Agency's recent Clean Power Plan show that the construction of new coal plants will be severely constrained in Western markets.

Commenting on the release of the emissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductions.»

We analyzed more than a dozen recent studies, including those from: Climate Action Tracker (CAT), Australian - German Climate and Energy College (CEC), Climate Interactive, Danish Energy Agency (DEA), European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC - JRC), the International Energy Agency (IEA), London School of Economics (LSE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MILES Project Consortium (MILES), PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the UNFCCC, and the UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

«The findings of this research will be used by organizations such as the US Environmental Protection Agency, European Commission and California Air Resources Board to more fully account for greenhouse gas emissions and their uncertainties from biofuel produced from palm oil.

European Environment Agency (EEA), Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration (Copenhagen: November 2000).

American Association for the Advancement of Science American Astronomical Society American Chemical Society American Geophysical Union American Institute of Physics American Meteorological Society American Physical Society Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO British Antarctic Survey Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Environmental Protection Agency European Federation of Geologists European Geosciences Union European Physical Society Federation of American Scientists Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies Geological Society of America Geological Society of Australia International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics National Center for Atmospheric Research National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Royal Meteorological Society Royal Society of the UK The Academies of Science from 19 different countries all endorse the consensus.

American Association for the Advancement of Science American Astronomical Society American Chemical Society American Geophysical Union American Institute of Physics American Meteorological Society American Physical Society Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO British Antarctic Survey Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Environmental Protection Agency European Federation of Geologists European Geosciences Union European Physical Society Federation of American Scientists Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies Geological Society of America Geological Society of Australia Geological Society of London International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics National Center for Atmospheric Research National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Royal Meteorological Society Royal Society of the UK The Academies of Science from 19 different countries all endorse the consensus.

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