On 12 May 2021, the Commission adopted the EU action plan: “Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for Air, Water and Soil” (COM(2021) 400).
The action plan translates the zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment into an operational roadmap, together with the chemicals strategy for sustainability and in close synergy with other relevant European Green Deal initiatives, e.g. on climate, biodiversity and circular economy.
The zero pollution ambition is a cross-cutting objective contributing to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and complementing the 2050 climate-neutrality goal in synergy with the clean and circular economy and restored biodiversity goals. To that end, the zero pollution action plan sets key 2030 targets to speed up pollution reduction.
The Joint Research Centre is linked to a number of activities under the zero pollution flagships (SWD(2021) 140) and is in particular responsible for the production of the first zero pollution outlook report in 2022, which will from then on be published every second year.
The zero pollution outlook analyses synergies and trade-offs between different EU policies and translates ‘early warnings’ into recommendations on pollutants of increasing concern based on the latest research findings. Its ambition is also to integrate analyses, projections and forecasts across air, soil and the aquatic realm.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Joint Research Centre;
2022-12-07
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC129655
978-92-76-57574-0 (online),
978-92-76-57575-7 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 31248 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-248-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-31-248-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC129655,
10.2760/39491 (online),
10.2760/778012 (print),
