Stockholm, Rio, Århus, Inspire: Mapping-Out Environmental Information

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1 Stockholm, Rio, Århus, Inspire: Mapping-Out Environmental Information Thomas Pick Lower-Saxony Ministry for the Environment Thomas Vögele Coordination Center PortalU

2 Themes Climate and Information Nature of Environmental Information Towards An Integrated Environmental Information Space

3 4th IPCC Report on Climate Change IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) raised percentage of likelyness that man is responsible for CC from 66% in 2001 report to 90% in The reason for this is the better data basis

4 Integrated Assessment Framework for Considering Climate Change

5 Milestones INSPIRE Directive, 2007 Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information (EEID), 2003 Aarhus-Convention, 1998 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, June 1992 Declaration of the UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, 16 June 1972

6 The Åarhus-Konvention GOALS: Enhancing government accountability, transparency, and responsiveness. Assisting civil society participation Helping to create participatory democracy for sustainable development in Europe. 3 PILLARS: Public Access to Environmental Information Public Participation Access to Justice (in environmental matters)

7 Envionmental Info. Directive General Right of Access to Environmental Information (held by or for public authorities) Upon request by ANYBODY, ASAP, few exceptions Active dissemination a) Environmental Legislation b) Policies, Plans and Programmes c) Progress Reports on implementation of a) and b) d) Reports on the State of the Environment e) Data derived from environmental monitoring f) Authorisations (e.g. Licences) g) Environmental Impact Studies

8 Environmental Information is X-Domain Nature Energy Agriculture Health Transport X-Level Local Regional Federal European 3 rd Party

9 EEID Challenges... No implementation guidance available No harmonisation / standardisation activities (e.g. no procedures, schemes, etc.) Few Tools (e.g, PortalU) No Funding? Little information exchange No Interoperability!

10 Environmental Information according to the EEID: Elements Factors Measures Effects Water Substances Policies Health Soil Energy Legislation Food Chain Air Land Biodiversity Noise Radiation Emissions Waste Plans Programmes Agreements Conditions of Human Life Cultural Sites Built Structures

11 INSPIRE Annex I 1. Coord. ref..systems 2. Geogr. grid systems 3. Geographical names 4. Administrative units 5. Addresses 6. Cadastral parcels 7. Transport networks 8. Hydrography 9. Protected sites Annex II 1. Elevation 2. Land cover 3. Orthoimagery 4. Geology Annex III 1. Statistical units 2. Buildings 3. Soil 4. Land use 5. Human health/safety 6. Utility / gov.services 7. Env. monitoring facil. 8. Production and industrial facilities 9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities 10. Population distribution / demogr. 11. Area management/ restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

12 Synergies & Differences Access To Information Public Participation Access To Justice INSPIRE EEID Århus Convention

13 Information Systems Functionality Coverage Peeling the Onion SEIS Single European Information Space SISE Single Information Space 4 the Env. SEIS DG ENV GMES Shared Env. Information Space GEO After Guy Weets, 2007

14 Shared Environmental Information Space ICT is core enabling technology (Monitoring networks, interconnected A 3 -Model information systems, dynamic data flows, GIS, decision support Availability systems, services, models) ICT is applied to help monitor and Accessibility predict environment ICT for better managenment of Accountability natural resources Key concept is Interoperability Enable seamless cooperation of components Sound environmental policy Interdisciplinary approach to environmental monitoring

15 EnviroInfo 2007 Workshop on Implementation of EEID in EC Member States September 2007 at Warsaw Initiative for harmonised approach in EC Platform for sharing information on status, philosphy and organisation of implementation Preparation for light-house workshop at EnviroInfo 2008, Lüneburg

16 An Information Space for EEID and INSPIRE (EN) (DE) (DE)