Economic growth therefore necessitates speeding up efforts towards better integration of environment into all policy areas. This causes in particular a rise in emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, making climate change issues even more difficult to tackle. Tourism is growing rapidly and significantly. Other emissions, like lead and dioxins, are forecast to decrease. Progress in the integration of the environment into sectoral decision-making and policies is real but slow.
Major progress is seen in industry, using environmental management and audit schemes.
Economic instruments such as eco-taxes are still being applied on a small scale. There is great potential for expanding integration policies and instruments into other economic sectors. The indications about the pressures show how factors are changing, such as emissions of pollutants or land use, which give rise to the problems. The information about state and impacts indicate how these pressures are changing environmental quality. From the above summary table, we can see significant and positive cuts in ozone-depleting substances.