Industrial Pollution Indicators & State of Environment Reporting Johannes Schilling Project Manager – Policy evaluation & EU ETS Air and Climate Change.

Industrial PollutionIndicators & State of Environment Reporting

Johannes SchillingProject Manager – Policy evaluation & EU ETSAir and Climate Change [email protected]

Eionet NRC workshop on Industrial PollutionCopenhagen 4th March 2015

Reminder: delivering the MAWP 2014-2018

Specific objective – industrial pollution:

• … • to deliver targeted indicators and cross-cutting assessments identifying the

environmental, health and economic impacts of pollutant releases from industrial facilities to air, water, soil and in waste, including studies assessing the effectiveness of industrial emissions mitigation policies, costs of pollution from industrial facilities and identifying co-benefits of policy measures in these areas;

• …

Specific objective – sustainability assessments:• … • to produce SOER 2015• …

SOER every five years; needs early preparation of underlying data & info

What is ‘SOER2015’?

The EEA is mandated in its governing regulation to publish a State of the Environment Report (SOER) every five years, to assess the European environment’s state, trends and prospects.

• The suite of SOER 2015 products – 2 reports and 87 briefings – provide a baseline to assess where Europe is making progress against the 7th EAP objectives.

• The SOER 2015 synthesis report signals opportunities to recalibrate policies and knowledge in line with the 2050 vision.

SOER 2015 Synthesis report

SOER 2015 Assessment of global megatrends

11 briefings

Globalmegatrends

25 briefings

Europeanbriefings

9 briefings

Cross-countrycomparisons

39+3 briefings

Countries and regions

SOER 2015Two reports, 87 online briefings (many indicator-based)

Global Megatrends Briefings & Report

ThematicBriefings

Cross-Country Comparisons

CountryBriefings

A set of 11 briefings, which address:

• Diverging global population trends

• Living in an urban world• Disease burden and risk

of new pandemics• Accelerating

technological change• Continued economic

growth?• From a unipolar to a

multipolar world• Intensified global

competition for resources

• Growing pressures on ecosystems

• Consequences of climate change

• Increasing pollution load• Diversifying approach to

governance

A set of 25 thematic briefings, which address:

• Air pollution• Biodiversity• CC impacts & adapt. ..• Mitigating Climate...• Forests• Freshwater• Marine• Noise• Soil• Waste• Agriculture• Consumption• Energy• Industry• Maritime• Tourism• Transport• Health• Resource efficiency• Air & climate system• Land systems• Hydrological systems• Urban systems• Natural capital• Green economy

A set of 9 briefings, which address:

• Air pollution (focus on selected pollutants)

• Biodiversity (focus on protected areas)

• Climate Change (focus on greenhouse gases)

• Freshwater (focus on nutrients in rivers)

• Waste (focus on municipal solid waste)

• Agriculture (focus on organic farming)

• Energy (focus on energy consumption and renewables)

• Transport (focus on passenger transport)

• Resource efficiency (focus on material resources)

A set of 39 briefings which summarise reports on the state of the environment in:

• 33 EEA member countries

• 6 cooperating countries in the Western Balkans

In addition, 3 briefings give an overview of main environmental challenges in selected regions that extend beyond Europe, identified in the 7th EAP:• Arctic• Black Sea• The Mediterranean.

Part 1

– Setting the scene

Part 2

– Assessing trends

Part 3

– Looking ahead

Synthesis Report

Online briefingsPrinted reports

Thematic briefing on industry - findings

• The environmental performance of European industry has improved in recent decades.

• However, the sector is still responsible for significant amounts of pollution to air, water and soil, as well as generation of waste.

• While legislation has delivered concrete achievements in reducing pollution, a transition to a greener European industrial sector will require integrated approaches, with stronger control of pollution at source, incentives to change operating practices and use of innovative technologies.

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Indicators in thematic briefing on industry

• in 2015 based on availability and data quality

• covered:

- air pollutants: Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases and gross value added (GVA) from European industry (based, among other, on E-PRTR data)

- water pollutants: Nutrient releases to water – emissions intensity of manufacturing industries (based, among other, on water indicators)

- soil: contaminants affecting the solid matrix (soil, sludge, sediment) (based, among other, on soil indicators)

Industrial pollution indicator(s) – first steps

Initial objectives of the industrial pollution indicator(s)

• To inform assessments and state of the environment reporting

• To complete EEA‘s core set of indicators („CSI“) with an industrial pollution perspective

• To enhance the knowledge base on pressures from industry on various environmental media (air, water, …)

Audience of the indicator(s)

• Policy-makers at national and European levels, in a first instance mainly at technical level

• Experts (scientists, researchers)

• Specialised media (e.g. professional journals)

Industrial pollution indicator: 1 of 42

EEA‘s core set of indicators (CSI)

• the inner core of all EEA indicators: 42

• selected on the basis of their policy relevance

• regularly updated

• rely on quality data

• require established or expected on-stream data flows

manageable and stable basis for indicator-based assessments of progress against environmental policy priorities

Industrial pollution indicator – initial ideas

CSI indicators are typically centred around ‚key policy questions‘.

Examples could be:

1. How important is industrial pollution? (e.g. compared to other economic sectors; across countries)

2. What are the trends in industrial pollution?

3. Do changes in industrial pollution help achieve policy targets? (e.g. health and environment policy related objectives)

Examples 1 and 2 could be developed rather quickly, based on available data and information. Example 3 would require more time.

Industrial pollution indicator – DPSIR

EEA‘s analytical lenses for interplay between

the environment and socio-economic activities

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Industrial pollution indicator – initial ideas

Which part of DPSIR?

• 2015: focus on pressures, i.e. releases to the environment

Which geographic coverage?

• EEA-33 countries: European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey – subject to data availability

Which media?

• potentially all covered by E-PRTR (data gaps in E-PRTR for TR; soil information is not representative)

• 2015: air/greenhouse gas; if feasible: water (partially)

Industrial pollution indicator – initial ideas

Which pollutants?

• In 2015 most likely: greenhouse gases and main air pollutants, potentially persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals (HMs)

• potentially water pollutants (tbc)

Which data?

• point source, e.g. LCP, E-PRTR, … UWWT etc.

• inventories, e.g. greenhouse gas inventories, …

Related activity: country fact sheets

• country-by-country overviews; towards the end of 2015

• could include air and water pollutant emissions, GHG, energy, waste sector information

• key facts on importance of industrial sector and specific activities in a country

• examples exist:

• climate and energy country profiles;

• air pollution fact sheets;

• progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target

• can be indicator-based or other sources

• EEA-33 (subject to data availaibility)

Country information and country involvement

• country fact sheets on industrial pollution

• some country-by-country information likely to be made available with the industrial pollution indicator

NRCs industrial pollution will be consulted

• quality assurance, for example when outliers in data are identified

NRCs industrial pollution may be requested to provide data input (also via ETC/ACM)

Tasks and next steps

Tasks in 2015 (with ETC/ACM) on industrial pollution indicator and country fact sheets:

• methodology,

• data gathering,

• first version of indicator for stakeholder discussion; release of country fact sheets

… further down the road:

• environmental performance?

• efficiency (e.g. energy efficiency)?

• impacts (e.g. health impacts, externalities)?

• other media/themes: soil, waste, resource efficiency?

Country experiences?

Tour de table

- What indicators are used at national level for assessing industrial pollution? Which challenges did you face?

- What industrial pollution data is collected at national level other than data required by EU legislation?