Introduction Welcome to the fourth edition of our annual booklet of key environmental statistics.
The Environment in your Pocket is intended to be an accessible, handily sized, reference booklet, which will be particularly useful for ministers and officials across Government, for students studying environmental topics and for members of the public with a general interest in environmental issues. It covers almost 60 key data series and focuses on providing trends over time, including performance against quantified targets and commitments set at the national and international level. They include all the environmental headline indicators. The presentations of some of the key series in the booklet have been changed from previous editions to reflect the presentation of indicators in Quality of Life Counts . Also included in the general section of this booklet are three analyses, first presented in Quality of Life Counts , looking at linkages between indicators or key series of data on the economy, traffic and energy use and emissions of pollutants or greenhouse gases.