European State of the Environment and

Outlook Report 2010 – Part C

Barbara Clark – SOER Part C Team Coordinator

Part C in SOER context

AExploratory

assessment

•Global drivers•Megatrends•Uncertainties•Long-term policy

implications

CCountry

specific analyses

•Commonality•Diversity•Flexibilty

BEEA+6 wide

system analysis

•Atmosphere•Freshwater•Marine•Terrestrial•Human

Synthesis Integrated Analysis (Reflecting – Reviewing – Rethinking)

Europe of concerted national environmental effort

“By using a combination of describing trends and highlighting solutions we want to show that Europe has, through the strong common environmental policy framework that distinguishes it from almost any other part of the world, worked to deliver environmental improvements for the benefit of its citizens”

Vision for Part C

Content of Part C

• Covering 38 countries

• Complementing European benchmarking in Part B with detailed country-level analyses

• Enabling countries to focus on common issues from national perspective

• Bringing out diversity of country realities

• Providing platform for communicating issues of particular national concern

• Assessments by countries, guided by EEA

• Creating process for regular, rather than ad-hoc, reporting

Part C – country-level analysesCommonality

• 6 common issues (air pollution, climate change mitigation, land, freshwater, waste and nature protection and biodiversity)

• DPSIR entry point in line with Part B

Diversity

• Country differences and uniqueness linked to key geographical, cultural and socio-economic challenges

Flexibility

• Highlighting regional issues, good practices/success stories at country level, and/or tackling global issues at national level

Part C and Biodiversity 1

• Component on nature protection and biodiversity in commonality section (deadline for deliveries – 30 September)

• Opportunity to include biodiversity aspects in diversity section focussing on uniqueness of national situation (deadline for second draft version – 30 November)

• Opportunity to address a national issue related to nature conservation and biodiversity in flexibility section (deadline for identification of topics – 31 August)

• Discuss with your NFP/Part C coordinator possibilities for further cooperation on biodiversity aspects of Part C

Part C and Biodiversity 2

• Biodiversity in the commonality section:• Comparable contributions showing diversity of

national situations• Structured according to five guiding questions on

nature protection and biodiversity• Using selected keywords and proposed indicators

from CSI and SEBI• Taking EU policy into account• SOER Part C guidance document:

http://soer2010.ew.eea.europa.eu/part-c/part-c-guidance

Part C and Biodiversity 3

•Deadline for deliveries for the commonality section: 30 September 2009

•Submissions received from Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia, Norway (as of 28 September)

SOER 2010 Portal

http://soer2010.ew.eea.europa.eu/

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