On 11 July 2022, the European Commission proposed an amendment to the EU Regulation on European environmental economic accounts, which introduces (among others) ecosystem accounts. Ecosystem...

In 2021, the EU expenditure on environmental protection amounted to €292 billion. Rising on average by over 3% each year, the expenditure on environmental protection increased by 54% since 2006...

The EU has achieved good progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 14) ‘Life below water’. Overall, marine protected areas have increased...

The topics addressed by the SDGs touch many parts of your life, the life of your family and friends as well as your country's future. Do you want to...

A few days ago, Eurostat published the 2022 monitoring report on the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an EU context. How is your country doing...

Would you like to learn more about how Europe is doing in terms of the European Green Deal? Access EUROSTAT's interactive visualisation tool for statistics on reducing our...

Sustainable development is firmly anchored in the European Treaties and has been at the heart of European policy for a long time. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable...

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, published today the ‘Sustainable development in the European Union - 2022 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context'...

How is the EU progressing towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected these goals? The 17 SDGs, which...

Birds in the EU are less abundant than a few decades ago. Since 2000, the number of common birds is estimated to have declined by 10%. The occurrence of common birds is...