This Ipsos survey indicates that 37 percent of respondents believed the most concerning environmental issue facing the world is climate change. Air pollution was the second most important environmental issue around the world, closely followed by the amount waste that is generated.

The environmental impacts of food production are felt all around the world. However, a continuously growing population understandably calls for an increase in food production. Agriculture is the single biggest cause of deforestation globally, accounting for approximately 80 percent. Drivers linked to food production are also responsible for 70 percent of the planet's terrestrial biodiversity loss. Changes in land and sea use are the main regional threats to populations in all regions. Whilst unsustainable agriculture is a leading cause of this destruction, other common changes in land and sea use are logging, transportation, development, energy production and mining, and abstraction of water.

Environmental Liability: spreadsheet providing information about the number and type of incidents recorded by UK regulators during 2013 under legislation transposing the Environmental Liability Directive. The information is updated annually.

Previous returns are available from the National Archives at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130321224818/http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/environmental-liability/

This statistic displays the total environmental impacts of the largest companies worldwide in 2016. Among global companies, greenhouses gas emissions accounted for 31 percent of their total environmental impact.

This table presents economic data for the environmental goods and services sector by activity. It contains data on labour volume, output, gross value added and export of the environmental goods and services sector. Output, gross value added and export are measured in basic prices and labour volume is measured in full time equivalents (fte). The environmental activities are assigned to an environmental domain (environmental protection and/or management of natural resources).

The economic data are presented in the following quantities: -Labour volume, 1000 fte -Output at basic prices, mln Euro -Gross value added at basic prices, mln Euro -Export at basic prices, mln Euro

The environmental goods and services sector consists of companies and institutions that are involved in activities with respect to measuring, preventing, limiting, minimalizing or correcting environmental damage to water, air and soil as well as problems related to waste, noise and ecosystems (OECD, 1999; Eurostat 2009). This definition includes 'cleaner technologies 'and 'cleaner goods and services' which reduce environmental risk and minimize the use of natural resources and pollution. The definition of the environmental goods and services sector is determined on European level and it is used by EU-countries accordingly.

The environmental goods and services sector is part of de Dutch system of environmental accounts, which brings together economic and environmental information in a common framework. The Dutch environmental accounts are compiled following the general concepts, definitions and classifications as described in SEEA 2012 and the 2008 SNA. As it is in line with de definitions and classifications of the national accounts system, there exists a small difference between environmental accounts and environmental statistics. More information on the methodology can be found elsewhere on the website of CBS.

Data available from: 2001

Status of the figures: Provisional figures.

Changes as of 4 July 2023: Year 2021 has been added. The figures about earlier years have been adjusted following a change in the business population belonging to the environmental goods and services sector.

Changes as of 8 July 2022: Year 2020 has been added. The figures about earlier years have been adjusted following a change in the business population belonging to the environmental goods and services sector.

Changes as of 2 April 2021: Year 2017, 2018 and 2019 has been added. The figures about earlier years have been adjusted following a change in the business population belonging to the environmental goods and services sector.

Changes as of 16 November 2018: Year 2016 has been added. The figures about earlier years have been adjusted following a change in the business population belonging to the environmental goods and services sector. Environmental activities 'Second-hand stores (no antiques)' and 'Wholesale of waste and scrap' are outside of the scope for the environmental goods and services sector and are deleted.

Changes as of 5 October 2017: Provisional figures for 2015 have been added. The time series has been updated according to the most recent estimates. A new variable, Export basic prices, has been added. The underlying coding of classifications used in this table has been adjusted. It is now in line with the standard encoding defined by CBS.

Changes as of 25 August 2016: Year 2014 has been added. The figures about earlier years have been adjusted following a change in the business population belonging to the environmental goods and services sector.

When will new figures be published? New provisional figures are published annually in March.

As an inescapable concomitant with the traditional route of economic development, Pakistan has been facing natural resource degradation and pollution problems. The unsavory spectacle of air pollution, water contamination and other macro environmental impacts such as water logging, land degradation and desertification, are on rise. All this, in conjunction with rapid growth in population, have been instrumental to the expanding tentacles of poverty. In order to assess the environmental problems as a prelude to arrest the pace of degeneration and provide for sustainable course of economic development, the availability of adequate data is imperative. This publication is an attempt to provide relevant statistics compiled through secondary sources collected from different departments. The task of environmental data collection does not consist just in determining the frame and approaching the selected sources of information because environmental statistics per se do not exist as a ready-to-compile/pick category as generally perceived about data and statistics. The information on environment has generated through deliberate scientific observations and measurements in a consistent way, under the aegis of specialized agencies. Since it is skill and resource intensive pursuit and generally undertaken in public sector, the overall budgetary/financial constraints do take the toll of the canvas and continuity of environmental data generation down the time lane. Consequently, availability of the statistics falls short of desired level. Further, the studies pertaining to normal over a period of time are repeated after long time intervals, which may not conform with the quinquennial periodicity of this document. Similarly, many variables antecedental, associated with and, consequential to, environment are derived from population census, which is yet to be carried out even though the stipulated decennial time frame has long been overstepped. Nevertheless, the latest update of the compendium is a good attempt to mirror quite a few environmental factors as a means to raise awareness and help stay focus on the pivotality of environmental concerns for instituting sustainable development paradigm-the only way forward to ensuring the continuity of human race on the face of planet earth.

By 2030, the estimated environmental impact of e-commerce logistics will be much higher in the largest 100 urban areas worldwide. The delivery car fleet could reach 7.2 million vehicles by the end of this decade, and total emissions caused by parcel and freight shipping are forecast to generate 25 million metric tons of CO2. In addition, the average commute time, including last-mile delivery, is expected to increase from 53 minutes in 2019 to 64 minutes in 2030.

The headquarters handles the execution and results analysis of environmental impact assessment supervision.

This dataset has been replaced with the following datasets: EPA Referred Schemes (DWER-119) & EPA Referred Significant Proposals (DWER-120). This dataset is formally known as Environmental Impact Assessments Outcomes and Changes (DWER-088). It is a spatial log of all proposals and scheme amendments that are referred to the EPA Services Directorate and their pathway through the environmental impact assessment process. The data contained in the data is supplied by the proponents, and additional required attribute data is completed by the EPA GIS team.

Freight Facts and Figures - Freight Transportation Energy Use and Environmental Impacts

In 2024, polluted drinking water was the most concerning environmental issue among adults in the United States. 55 percent of respondents worried a great deal about pollution in drinking water quality, while 52 percent had similar worries about pollution in waterways. Meanwhile, 42 percent of American adults worried a great deal about both global warming or climate change and air pollution. The share of Americans who worried about air pollution has fallen since 1990.

Source data for the article 'Impacts of reduction in air pollutants and CO2 emissions from international shipping with considerations for total energy systems transformation"

Vastly increased international trade over the past few decades has resulted in an ever larger geographical spread in the environmental impacts of local consumption. Particularly in the case of high-income countries, a large share of their total environmental footprint of local consumption now materializes in places far beyond the respective national border. On the presumption that democratic policy-makers should, and often do, act in line with prevailing public opinion we examine whether currently weak policies addressing consumption-based environmental impacts abroad may reflect a gap in knowledge among citizens, and how closing this gap would affect policy preferences concerning the greening of international supply chains. We do so based on an experiment, embedded in a large representative survey (N = 8’000) in Switzerland, a high-income country with a very large extraterritorial environmental footprint. The main finding is that there is a major gap in knowledge among the mass public in this area, and that this gap can be closed. However, closing the information gap does not lead to a significant change in policy preferences in favor of reducing the global environmental footprint of local consumption. This points to major policy challenges in trying to mitigate problems of environmental impact shifting in the global economy.

The threat of droughts and their associated impacts on the landscape and human communities have long been recognized in the United States, especially in high risk areas such as the southcentral region. This project examines whether existing drought indices can predict the occurrence of drought events and their actual damages, how the adaptive capacity (i.e., resilience) varies across space, and what public outreach and engagement effort would be most effective for mitigation of risk and impacts. The study region includes all 503 counties in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. This data set was created to assess the community resilience to the drought hazards using the Resilience Inference Measurement (RIM) model. The data include county-level variables on drought hazards, damages, socioeconomic, and environmental variables for the time period 1991-2010.

This map illustrates satellite-detected fires and environmental damage at and around Al Qayyarah, approximately 60 Km south of Mosul, Iraq. The main frame shows fires and the oil spill as seen in imagery collected between 23 December 2016 and 24 January 2017. Marked in blue are fires that were detected in 23 December 2016 but appear inactive as of 24 January 2017. Insets on the left show the oil spill north of Al Qayyarah, detected with both radar and optical imagery from multiple dates. As seen in the imagery, the oil spill is very close to one of the streams which is incidentally a tributary to the Tigris River; therefore, it is possible that oil is spilling to the river. The spectral signature from thermal imagery also suggest that areas of the oil spill are on fire. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR - UNOSAT.

This document summarizes the results of environmental impact assessments by the Ministry of the Environment and local governments, and completes the review of the number of environmental impact statements, the number of completed reviews of environmental impact assessment reports, and the number of approved environmental impact assessment review cases according to national, environmental department, and county/city statistics.

The dataset includes the LCA, LCIA, LCC, sensitivity analysis for the wastewater treatment expansion for co-digestion with food waste. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Morelli, B., S. Cashman, X. Ma, J. Turgeon, S. Arden, and J. Garland. Environmental and Cost Benefits of Co-Digesting Food Waste at Wastewater Treatment Plants. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. IWA Publishing, London, UK, 82(2): 227-241, (2020).

There is great concern on the effects of non-native species impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We constructed a comprehensive database of the scientific papers on field studies reporting environmental impacts of invasive plant species in Europe. We searched for relevant articles on the Web of Science database until the end of 2022 with no restriction on publication year. Our final dataset included 266 publications on 897 impacts of 104 invasive plant species on native species, communities and ecosystem properties in 29 European countries. This database contributes to the IPBES Global Invasive Alien Species Assessment.

This file describes the dataset used in Ou et al., "Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US." This work used the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) with state-level representation of the U.S. energy system (GCAM-USA). GCAM and GCAM-USA are developed and released by the University of Maryland/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Joint Global Change Research Center (JGCRI). For further details, see the GCAM documentation: jgcri.github.io/gcam-doc. The model source code is available at github.com/JGCRI/gcam-core. A modified version of GCAMv4.3 was used for this analysis. Source code and input data specific for this paper are available upon request. This dataset contains Excel spreadsheets and an R script that link to comma-separated values (CSV) files that were extracted from the model output. The spreadsheets and scripts show the data and reproduce each of the figures in the paper. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Ou, Y., J. West, S. Smith, C. Nolte, and D. Loughlin. Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US.. Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group, London, UK, 11: 957, (2020).

National pollution petition cases, statistics for the number of petition cases in the first half of the year