More than 70 participants from European governments, the European Commission and other stakeholders gathered in Brussels on 28-29 March 2011 to discuss how the post-2013 EU budget should deal with investment needs in climate change and managing natural resources during a two-day workshop co-organised by IEEP together with the Dutch and Belgian governments.
IEEP has contributed to the production of the key messages from a major water conference contributing to future EU policy development.
This report advances the conceptual understanding of the concept of climate proofing the EU budget and offers ways to operationalise it in the debate on the post-2013 Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).
This series of reports reviewed evidence of climate change impacts on biodiversity in Europe, including vulnerable species across the Natura 2000 network, and identified policy measures that may facilitate biodiversity adaptation in the EU. The project also assessed the potential impacts of renewable energy technologies on Natura sites and their species.
The EU budget is one option in the EU's tool box to deliver policy results. There is a growing view among policy stakeholders that the future EU budget should not only dedicte targeted spending to climate change mitigation and adaptation actions but also horizontally integrate climate change measures across all spending areas...
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Climate Change
On 2 September IEEP launched a briefing aimed at 'Supporting Europe's Parliamentarians' in 'Combating Climate Change – Maintaining Momentum'.The briefing, and associated website, is intended as ...
On the 14 July the European Parliament’s new term of office (2009-2014) commenced. During the 2004-2009 term delivering climate action was a key priority of many MEPs, with the Parliament helping to increase ...
IEEP urges for stronger EU stance and more clarity in supporting developing countries in the face of climate change.An IEEP study looks into how the EU has fulfilled a crucial commitment within the so ...
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Climate Change
A weekly lecture series examining the role of the EU in the fight against global climate change, organised by the Institute for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in cooperation with ...
IEEP and our partner, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have published a report on "Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies in Europe and the United States". This report includes the ...
On 24 and 25 April 2008, representatives of civil society organisations from the EU and US gathered in Washington DC to exchange views and experience on the development, implementation and advancement ...
On 24 and 25 April, IEEP and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will be hosting a civil society conference in Washington DC to debate the scale and effectiveness of action to tackle climate change ...
A report by IEEP ‘Turning the EU Budget into an Instrument to Support the Fight Against Climate Change' was presented by Marc Pallemaerts on the 14 April at the Centre for European Policy Studies ...
On 24 and 25 April IEEP and the Natural Resources Defense Council will be hosting a conference in Washington DC allowing civil society from both sides of the Atlantic to debate policy, contrast effort ...
A report on the complex links between global warming and the world's water - drawn up by IEEP, Ecologic and SYKE - had a central role at Fourth Thematic Session of the European Parliament's Temporary Climate ...
IEEP welcomes the European Commission's policy package on climate and energy, but we consider that this is only a first step on a long road to delivering what is needed to tackle the problems of climate ...
IEEP has drawn up a report which presents national legislation, initiatives and programmes recently launched by EU Member States and EEA countries to tackle and face climate change.The report was requested ...
IEEP played a key role in the production of a newly published guidance document on the maintenance of landscape connectivity features.The guidance, developed jointly by IEEP, IUCN and Ecological Solutions ...