This report uses the pressure-state-response framework to assess six main environmental themes for Slovenia: air, water, soil, nature and biological diversity, waste and radiation. It also discusses socio-economic integration and five environmental problems and themes: climate change, chemicals and genetically modified organisms, photochemical smog, urban stress and coastal management.

Although data are still incomplete, some recent studies show that Slovenia, covering a small surface area, is extremely rich in species diversity. Economic growth based on industrial, urban and agricultural development contributed to pollution of surface and ground water, soil and air and to decrease in biological and landscape diversity. In 1994, the first draft of the Nature Conservation Strategy was prepared as a long term vision for activities at international, national and local levels based on European and global strategic documents.