1. Environment and
energy in the EU

2. Environment
• The UE has one of the strongest environmental rules.
• Those rules intented to protect endangered species and
habitats and to use the resources more responsibly.
• These rules are for example the environmental liability
which prevent any damage to the environment

3. European environment related
institutions
• The most important is the European Environment Agency
• But there are others like that have projects or jobs to
protect the environment like the European Commission
with the Directorate-general for the Environment

4. Environmental European Agency
• Is an institution created in 1990 but it was not until 1994
that it didn’t started to work completely
• Its aims are:
• Support the information requirements of EU and
international environmental legislation
• Make assessments of the European environment
• Improve the coordination and dissemination of
European environmental data and information

5. Principal Environmental topics of
the eae

6. Air Pollution
• In Europe, emissions of many air pollutants have decreased sharply.
However, air continues being harm for the health.
• But air pollution also damage our environment:
• Acidification: change in natural chemical balance caused by an
increase in acidic elements.
• Eutrophication: enrichment of water with nutrients, and the
associated adverse biological effects.

7. Biodiversity
• The overexplotation of forests, rivers, seas... are the causes
of the disminution of biodiversity.
• If there were no such biodiversity as there, our life will not
be as good as it is.
• There are new projects to halt the loss of biodiversity like
there was in 2010, the year of the biodiversity.

8. Climate change
• Temperatures are rising, rainfall patterns are shifting, glaciers and snow are melting
and the global mean sea level is raising.
• European initiatives:
• Ratifying the Kyoto Protocolo by improving the energy efficiency
• Reducing the production of CO2
• In general to produce less waste and have more efficiency

9. land use
• Europe is one of the most exploited continents (80% of the land) use
for settlements, production centre and infrastructure.
• To create a policy for the land was a conflict because the European
economy is based on the natural resources.
• So they create various systems to control and manage it.

10. Proposal for a new environment action
programme in 2020
• This is a new project which hope to create a green
Europe.
• Its keys are to protect natural capital, encourage
more resource efficiency and accelerate the
transition to the low-carbon economy