Environmental monitoring

Highlighting recent findings in observation and modelling, and discussing knowledge gaps and challenges

The BioMonitor project has published a series of scientific papers that analyses Europe’s bioeconomy strategy in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provide different policy scenarios in 30 years’ time.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today unveiled a comprehensive platform to help the global community step up action to reduce food loss and waste as the UN agency and partners call for increased efforts and gear up for the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste - to be marked for the first time on 29 September 2020.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), has started work to establish a globally recognized mass balance standard for the industry. The new standard will help to drive real change, supporting the development of recycled and renewable raw materials, and the production processes needed.

The BioMonitor project is setting up its monitoring and assessment framework for the European bioeconomy. To meet the need of its users, the consortium is asking for your help by participating in a survey.

To ensure this new calculator provides the most accurate data on supply chain emissions we need to hear views from across the biomass industry to help further improve the modelling and create a high industry standard for emissions reporting. The consolation period will conclude on 12th June 2020.

From June 3 to 6, 2019, the BioMonitor project had its annual meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia and held a session at the ICABR conference in Ravello, Italy.

The meeting focused how rural climate efforts can be proved and demonstrated, in order to be recognised by markets, authorities and the wider society.

Ocean acidification is the phenomenon in which oceans are becoming more acidic, as they continue to absorb more and more of carbon in the atmosphere, which is increasing due to human-produced emissions. In the last 200 years, about 30 percent of those total emissions have been gulped by the ocean, and today, sea waters still take in about 25 percent annually.

Amid a need for more accurate, up-to-date and harmonised data and monitoring on Europe’s valuable woodlands, the European Environment Agency and the European Commission today launched a new Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) which aims to become Europe’s knowledge hub to monitor the state, health and sustainability of Europe’s many forests.

Proposal of a global ‘roadmap’ for insect conservation and recovery which entails the immediate implementation of several ‘no-regret’ measures that will act to slow or stop insect declines.

Environment at a Glance is the OECD platform for environmental indicators. It gives access to the most recent data through interactive graphics and provides key messages on major environmental issues. The indicators shown provide a tool to track environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.

Through this report, the aim of the Life Cycle Initiative is to initiate a global process to reach consensus on recommended environmental indicators and characterisation factors (CFs) for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA).

Expert stakeholder workshop of the BioMonitor project focused on data collection methodologies.

The August edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.

The July edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.