Mid-term review following the 8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conf. –Beyond SEIS: from ‘improved reporting’ to ‘knowledge for action’

UNECE CEP meeting, GenevaDr Hans Bruyninckx, 29 January 2019

• Improve clarity: improve meta-data, data quality reports• Improve accessibility to environment data/information:

from collecting to harvesting, publishing• Reduce the timelines: from ‘less than 1 year’ to about 3

months• Improve relevance: serving multiple users

SEIS mid-term review 2018 - an EEA perspective

EEA as recipient of European data flows for 39(+) countries

Source: http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/

• 100+ regular data flows handled via EEA

• 18 Eionet core data flows

• 80+ non-core data flows

• 50-60 data flows per year(due to different reporting cycles)

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Annual number of Reportnet deliveries*

Eionet Performance Priority Data Flows reporting 2017-2018

80% delivery15 countries below 80%, 6 EU MS

European Air Quality Index

An online tool for the public and key stakeholders

Country data is available within hours of measurement

More than 2200 monitoring stations across Europe for five air pollutants

Beyond SEIS:From ‘monitoring and data’ to ‘actionable knowledge’

Increasing number of map requests: reaching the European citizen

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Air quality monitoring and forecast

Source: http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/air-quality-index/index Source: http://www.regional.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/

Increasing use of Copernicus services

Source: http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/air-quality-index/index

Use of geospatial information services for assessments

Sample of EEA publications 2017-2018 https://www.eea.europa.eu/

Modernising the e-Reporting infrastructure: beyond SEIS• Reportnet 1

– The initial Reportnet platform– Operational since year 2002– Total investment: 8-10 Meuro

• Reportnet 2.0– Improving performance, stability and security– Development period 2017-2019– Total estimated costs: 0.6 Meuro

• Reportnet 3.0– Modernised e-Reporting infrastructure 2020+– Development period 2018-2020– Total estimated costs: 3.1 Meuro

10 billion people, 1 planet: from data, to knowledge, to action

• Climate: IPCC report: 1.5°• Biodiversity: 15000 Concerned Scientists: 6th Extinction• Unsustainable resource use: International Resource Panel• Urgent action needed!