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Proceedings for Joint European Environment Agency and U.S. EPA Meeting (Final)
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Proceedings for Joint European Environment Agency and U.S. EPA Meeting (Final). 2021. U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-21/178, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
The meeting outcome report includes the final meeting agenda, speaker biographies, and a summary of plenary remarks and panel discussion. The virtual event was organized in the context of the existing EEA - US EPA cooperation framework.
Description:
For a number of years, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have engaged in sharing insights on various environmental aspects and learning from each other on measuring and assessing progress towards a sustainable and resource efficient economy.
The two agencies co-organized a virtual event in January 2021 around the following objectives:
- To have EEA Executive Director, Hans Bruyninckx, present the European State of the Environment Report (SOER) 2020.
- To discuss the importance of scientific evidence and information regarding the state of the environment and how trusted and actionable knowledge can be transferred through a science-policy interface to policy makers.
- To enhance dialogue between the two Agencies in view of reinforcing existing cooperation.