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Economic growth must be decoupled from environmental harm – the EEA evaluates findings from 2011

News Published 21 Dec 2011 Last modified 21 Jun 2016

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Europe’s impact on the environment is still very much linked to the economy. This message was clear in many of the reports and datasets published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in 2011, as analysts were able to clearly see a decrease in various emissions and types of environmental damage during the 2009 recession.