Latest ETC Reports (included in homepage)

ETC/ATNI Report 20/2021: European-wide city level air quality mapping. Evaluation of the current mapping methodology with respect to the level of cities and NUTS3 units and suggestions for future.

The report examines city-level mapping at the European scale, with the aim to provide consistent spatial information at NUTS3 and city levels across Europe. It introduces the population-weighted concentration based on the mapping results as a potential new approach for the city ranking. It also suggests several possibilities of future development towards the European-wide city level mapping in a fine resolution.

ETC/ATNI Report 16/2021: The Covid-19 pandemic and environmental stressors in Europe: synergies and interplays.

In this report, the impacts of restrictions related to the measures affecting air quality are based modeling studies on data for the whole of 2010 (compared to the years 2015-2019), and includes NO2, PM10, PM2.5 and O3. This is comlemented by assessment of future compliance with the Directive (EU) (2016/2284/EU) on National Emission Reduction Commitments and by literature reviews on air quality, noise and urban sustainability resp. urban planning. This report expands the analysis of restriction measures done by EEA in 2020.

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