2012

09.05.2012

Adaptation to Climate Change

From the development of strategies to their implementation. First meeting of Alpine Space countries on 9 May 2012 in Bern.

23.04.2012

ENCA Meeting in Austria

From April 22 to 24 the heads of European Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) are meeting in Gumpoldskirchen, Austria, for their annual ENCA meeting. Biodiversity strategies and invasive alien species are the focal points of their discussions.

20.04.2012

Towards a 7th EU Environment Action Programme

Consultation on the EU environment policy priorities for 2020. The purpose of this consultation is to collect the views of all stakeholders, at EU and national level, and the public at large on the environment policy priorities up to 2020.

29.02.2012

Umweltbundesamt contributing to „Green Serbia“

Serbia on its way to the European Union. Annual conference „Green Serbia“ held in Belgrad end of February 2012.

21.02.2012

Austria´s Annual Air Emission Inventory 1990-2010

The new report on Austria’s Annual Air Emission Inventory 1990–2010, compiled by the Umweltbundesamt (Environment Agency Austria) presents a summary of Austria’s provisional emission inventory for 2010 according to Article 8 of the NEC Directive.

27.01.2012

Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2010

In 2010, the third year of the first commitment period under the Kyoto-Protocol, greenhouse gas emissions amounted to 84.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents. This corresponds to an 8.2% increase against base-year levels and a 6.1% increase since 1990.

20.01.2012

EU climate change adaptation strategy

Climate change mitigation and adaptation are two of the major parallel approaches to limit the impacts of climate change. “Effective climate change adaptation measures need to be put in place at different levels, but there must also be a strategy at European level”, says Georg Rebernig, managing director of the Umweltbundesamt.

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