Global sustainability challenges increasingly raise concerns about the stability of the Earth system that supports all life on our planet. A joint study by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), published today, focuses on four critical elements of that system, such as the nitrogen cycle and changes […]

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The new report ‘Global megatrends assessment’, published by the EEA, complements the global megatrends briefings included in The European environment — state and outlook 2015 (SOER 2015) by providing substantially more in-depth information and data on each megatrend. The 11 global megatrends assessed include: Diverging global population trends Living in an urban world Changing disease burdens […]

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