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Module Consider the environmental state issue of the atmospheric concentration of CO in the context
5 of the European Union. One of the key pressures on this environmental state is the emission
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of greenhouse gases. Figure 29 presents an example in which the effects of different policies on
greenhouse gas emissions are analysed for the EU-15 in the period 1990–2001 along with an
estimate of the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the absence of different type of policies

(Harmelink and Joosen 2004).
9-12 December, 2013 Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-15 were more or less constant on the same level during the

period 1990–2001 (EEA, 2003). It is estimated that in the absence of policies in the period 1990–2001,
greenhouse gas emissions would have risen by 4.7 per cent.

Figure 29 Breakdown of the effects of environmental policies on greenhouse gas
emissions in the EU-15

(MNP/RIVM, 2004)

104 Integrated Analysis of Environmental Trends and Policies