The Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform held a workshop on an Urban and Regional Scoreboard on 25 April, focusing on environmental themes, impacts, indicators, aggregation, and visualisation of scoreboards for Zero Pollution objectives.
- environmental policy | environmental protection | EU quality schemes | sustainable development | environmental standard
- Tuesday 25 April 2023, 09:30 - 17:00 (CEST)
- Brussels, Belgium
- Live streaming available
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- When
- Tuesday 25 April 2023, 09:30 - 17:00 (CEST)
- Where
- Brussels Info Place (BIP)Koningsplein 11, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- Languages
- English
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The stakeholder workshop “Towards an urban and regional scoring methodology for Zero Pollution” was held in Brussels on 25 April.
The Zero Pollution Action Plan supports urban Zero Pollution action (Flagship 2) and promoting Zero Pollution across regions (Flagship 3):
- Flagship 2 aims to reward cities in their effort to combat air, water, and soil pollution in the timeframe 2021-2023.
- Flagship 3 seeks to measure green performance of regions in reaching pollution targets, to be displayed in a scoreboard to award regions reporting the most progress in achieving the 2030 targets.
The scoreboard provides the opportunity for citizens and stakeholders to check progress of their respective regions/cities on the path to Zero Pollution.
After introducing the Zero Pollution Action Plan Flagships 2 and 3, the workshop focused on the milestones of the urban/regional scoreboard exercise, with discussions on relevant environmental themes and impacts, as well as on data availability and appropriate indicators.
The workshop also centred around the scoring methodology, aggregation of indicators, the grouping framework, and scoreboard visualisation.
Participants focused on more in-depth discussions in 2 smaller groups, discussing:
Environmental themes, impacts, data availability (and frequency) and indicators
Aggregation of indicators, grouping and scoring
Visualisations of scoreboards.
The workshop concluded that the tool has the potential to fill existing data gaps and link the impacts of pollution with human health through a more integrated approach to regional environmental analysis, track regional progress towards zero pollution, and serve as a communication tool for policymakers, stakeholders and citizens. While it is important to consider what is desirable, feasibility, time and data availability must also be taken into account.