Citation
(2006), "Europe still not on a sustainable path", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 17 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2006.08317cab.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Europe still not on a sustainable path
Only a few objectives set in the 2001 EU sustainable development strategy are within reach, according to a says a report by Eurostat, the EU statistical agency. Trends including energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, farmland birds and fish catches are not pointing in the right direction, it concludes.
Europe made progress during the 1990s, but this has stalled since 2000, according to Eurostat in a report recently issued. Of all the official headline indicators, only two show good progress towards objectives. Only one of these – domestic material consumption – concerns environmental protection.
No significant changes have been observed in transport trends. The car share of inland passenger transport in 2002 was only slightly above 1998 levels in the EU-15, but the road share of inland freight transport increased to around 79 per cent of tonne-km in 2003, up by two percentage points since 1998. Further information is available at: http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-68-05-551/EN/KS-68-05-551-EN.PDF