Review of EU's Recent Environmental Policy Identifies Few Successes, Many Shortcomings

摘要

BRUSSELS-The European Union is falling short in many areas of environmental policy despite years of planning and target setting, the European Commission said in a report published Aug. 10.rnThe 2009 Environment Policy Review contained measurements of EU environmental progress against 32 indicators and found that there had been "good performance," or that the EU was on track to meet targets, in only four areas.