The implementation of environmental aspects of the sustainable development in Poland and in the European Union

The aim of the study is to present selected methods and results of implementation of environmental assumptions of sustainable development concept in European Union countries and especially in Poland after 2004 based on the statistical data from Eurostat. The measures of implementation of environmental goals are: share of permanent meadows and pastures area, area of forests and trends in afforestation process, number and area of organic farms and area of Natura 2000 protection. The main method used in this article is vertical and horizontal statistical analysis of gathered data and its synthetic presentation in graphs and tables.