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Greenhouse gas emissions in Europe: a retrospective trend analysis for the period 1990–2008
EEA report 6/2011

Released: 2011/10/07: See the report

Abstract:
This report presents a retrospective overview of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trends in Europe from 1990 to 2008, with a particular focus on the underpinning drivers and the influence of EU policies. The analysis is based on the combination of decomposition analyses to identify the respective influence of each identified driver and an overview of the main EU policies and their likely effects on these drivers. The period covered by the analysis stops in 2008. As a result, the analysis avoids the effects of the recent economic crisis on GHG emissions. This reinforces the conclusion on long-term emission drivers. The report covers the EU-27 and presents results for the other EEA member countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey) and Croatia (EU candidate country together with Turkey) as far as data is available.

Prepared by: EEA and its European Topic Centre for Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC) with Nicole Mandl as ETC/ACC task coordinator. The authors were, in alphabetic order, Andreas Borgan, Bernd Gugele, Simone Haider, Elisabeth Kampel, Nicole Mandl and Elisabeth Rigler (UBA-Vienna), Stephanie Boulos, Angela Falconer, Michael Harfoot, Nikolas Hill, Isabelle de Lovinfosse, Hugh Martineau, Shoko Okamura, Neil Passant, Anne Wagner and David Wynn (AEA Technology), Giorgos Mellios (Emisia) (all ETC/ACM Consortium partners) and François Dejean of the EEA.

EEA project manager: François Dejean

Publish Date: 7 October 2011

Published by: © EEA (European Environment Agency), Copenhagen, 2011