2: Cross-Cutting Themes

Support policy development and evaluation within the cross-cutting themes

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Demand for cross-cutting integrated analyses is growing in recognition of rapidly changing realities. Europe's consumption and production patterns, their influence on climate change and biodiversity, how they are served by ecosystems around the world, and how these patterns might be adapted in the face of change, are clearly in focus. The requirement for connected information on all these processes is growing as a result. In a globalised economy where individuals, businesses and governments can exert a global reach, many different types of policy can affect the resilience of the natural environment and the resources it provides whether on land or at sea. From transport to energy, agriculture to trade, tourism to people's well-being, all human activities can manifest themselves in a way that can have cascading sets of unintended consequences, leading us potentially to rapid non-linear changes and tipping points for the natural environment. Many uncertainties underlie these realities and how they may play out. But it is clear that environment and economy have not been equal partners in this relationship. General objective for 2009–2013 To support policy development and evaluation within the cross-cutting themes by: • building on the achievements of the 2004–2008 strategy with respect to the methods and analyses needed to generate cross-cutting assessments such as spatial analysis, impact indicators, outlooks and scenarios, policy effectiveness evaluations, economics; • putting these methods to work more explicitly across a range of cross-cutting themes in this strategic area such as sectoral integration, climate change, sustainable consumption and production and maritime, territorial and cohesion policies; • paying special attention to issues that are priorities for the SOER 2010, Eureca 2012 and IPCC 2013; and • building alliances and capacities within our networks to undertake such cross-cutting analyses and assessments within the context of SEIS. The work is divided into the ten major cross‑cutting themes that occur across the European Union's political and environmental landscape: • Climate change impacts • Vulnerability and adaptation • Ecosystems • Environment and health • Maritime • Sustainable consumption and production and waste • Land use • Agriculture and forestry • Energy • Transport

Objective(s):

2.1: Climate Change Impacts

2.2: Vulnerability and Adaptation

2.3: Ecosystems

2.4: Environment and Health

2.5: Maritime

2.6: Sustainable Consumption and Production and Waste

2.7: Land Use

2.8: Agriculture and Forestry

2.9: Energy

2.10: Transport

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