Glossary:European Environment Agency (EEA)
From Statistics Explained
See EEA disambiguation page for other meanings of EEA.
The European Environment Agency, abbreviated as EEA, located in Copenhagen, is the European Union (EU) body dedicated to providing sound and independent information on the environment.
Its mission is to help the EU and its member countries in making informed decisions about improving the environment, integrating environmental considerations into economic policies and moving towards sustainability. To do this, it provides a wide range of information and assessments. These cover the state of the environment and trends in it, together with pressures on the environment and the economic and social driving forces behind them.
As EEA membership is also open to countries that are not European Union Member States, it has 32 member countries: the 27 EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey and Switzerland.
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