European Commission
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2024)
Reporting Period: 2024
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- One Health
Governance Achievements
- Established an inter-agency task force involving ECDC, ECHA, EFSA, EEA, and EMA to coordinate One Health actions.
- Launched the European Climate and Health Observatory to address climate-related health risks.
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Sustainable livestock and agricultural development.
- Improved ecosystem protection and management.
- Enhanced resilience of communities.
Medium-term Goals:
- Establish an integrated surveillance, preparedness, and response system.
- Improved ability to prevent, detect, and respond to zoonoses.
- Alignment of agencies’ surveillance systems with One Health.
- Improved stewardship and equitable access to technologies.
- Implement concrete initiatives for mental health promotion.
- Demonstrated return on investment from One Health initiatives.
Short-term Goals:
- Integration of existing policies and infrastructures.
- Improved surveillance of emerging pathogens.
- Improved One Health coordination mechanisms.
- Sufficient funding for key One Health plans.
- Integration of mental health into all programs.
Environmental Challenges
- Divided competences between EU and Member States in public health policy.
- Fragmented EU One Health policy landscape.
- Limited focus on non-infectious diseases in One Health initiatives.
- Lack of long-term studies, indicators for measuring outcomes, and cost-effectiveness analyses.
- Institutional and structural barriers hindering inter- and transdisciplinary research collaboration.
- Fragmented data landscape and restricted access to data.
Mitigation Strategies
- Develop a common One Health vision for Europe.
- Create a high-level One Health coordination mechanism.
- Develop an EU One Health strategy with short-, medium-, and long-term goals.
- Support the development of national One Health strategies.
- Improve inter-institutional collaboration.
- Support education, training, data, and knowledge sharing.
- Support inter- and transdisciplinary research and innovation.
- Improve prevention, surveillance, and risk assessment.
- Integrate existing infrastructures for surveillance.
- Develop integrated models and Key Performance Indicators to assess effectiveness.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather events
- Floods