Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • New report launch: Call for a new vision for responsible renewable energy with a clear European dimension

    Claude Turmes MEP hosted an event launching both IEEP’s report and a debate on the future of renewable energy in Europe. In the our report IEEP present how a resource efficient energy system might be delivered in a way that minimises impact on biodiversity and the wider environment.

    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    Environmental Impact Assessment
    governance
    renewable energy
    Strategic Environmental Assessment 
    27 Jan 2016
  • A New Vision for Responsible Renewable Energy with a Clear European Dimension

    Renewable energy is key to the decarbonisation of Europe’s energy supply, however, the scale of expansion needed will have significant impacts over a considerable area. This new report suggests how a resource efficient energy system might be delivered in a way that minimises and mitigates impacts on biodiversity and the wider environment.

    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    Birds Directive
    carbon
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    greenhouse gases
    Habitats Directive
    land use
    renewable energy
    Strategic Environmental Assessment
    wind turbine 
    26 Nov 2015
  • New report: delivering low carbon transport fuels post 2020

    How should EU policy support the transition to low carbon transport fuels post 2020? A new IEEP led report argues that future policies should be differentiated to tailor support towards specific objectives and technologies that offer the greatest potential for a low carbon future.

    bioeconomy
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    carbon
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    market based instruments
    mitigation
    policy instruments
    renewable energy
    transport 
    13 Jul 2015
  • New report is out: delivering low carbon transport fuels post 2020

    How should EU policy support the transition to low carbon transport fuels post 2020? A new IEEP led report argues that future policies should be differentiated to tailor support towards specific objectives and technologies that offer the greatest potential for a low carbon future.

    bioeconomy
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    carbon
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    market based instruments
    mitigation
    policy instruments
    renewable energy
    transport 
    13 Jul 2015
  • Getting delivery right: the EU 2030 climate and energy targets and the challenge of governance

    The EU’s commitment to GHG reductions of “at least” 40% by 2030 are a useful contribution to international climate negotiations. But does the package of energy targets offered by the European Council at the same time put us on the right track to long-term decarbonisation goals? IEEP’s Martin Nesbit offers a personal perspective on what needs to be done, and how the governance arrangements need to be tightened.

    clean technologies
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    greenhouse gases
    renewable energy 
    05 Dec 2014
  • The Manual: Chapter 3 - Climate change

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter on EU climate change policy outlines the initial EU programme to stabilise CO2 emissions in the EU with explanations of the directives, decisions and legislation that were employed to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.

    bioenergy
    carbon capture and storage
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    greenhouse gases
    pollution
    renewable energy 
    27 Nov 2014
  • The Manual: Chapter 13 - Sectoral policies

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter sets out the development of some of the most important links between EU environmental policy and other policy areas, such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, transport, trade, and so on.

    agriculture
    air quality
    biodiversity
    biofuels
    CAP
    carbon
    climate change
    Common Fisheries Policy
    emissions trading
    energy
    fisheries
    forestry
    greenhouse gases
    land degradation
    land use
    Maritime Policy
    renewable energy
    soil
    trade
    transport 
    27 Nov 2014
  • Europe’s Climate and Energy Crossroads – IEEP seminars for MEPs on climate and energy issues

    IEEP has prepared two briefing documents on the climate and energy challenge in Central and Eastern European Member States, and in Southern European Member States. The briefings are background for a seminar we are organising for Members of the European Parliament, the first in a series on Europe’s Climate and Energy Crossroads.

    carbon
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    EU institutions
    renewable energy 
    03 Nov 2014
  • The EU’s 2030 climate and energy targets – a triumph of short-termism?

    European leaders have raised the stakes for the Paris talks by agreeing a set of climate and energy targets for 2030. The challenge will be to implement the tortuous detail on energy policy in a way which matches with longer term decarbonisation ambitions.

    climate and energy package
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    governance
    greenhouse gases
    Kyoto Protocol
    land use
    mitigation 
    27 Oct 2014
  • IEEP presentation on insights from international experiences with carbon and energy taxes

    IEEP gave a presentation at a conference on ‘Green Taxation and Emissions Trading – Making Market-Based Instruments work’ in Winterthur, Switzerland on 24-25 October.

    climate change
    economics
    emissions trading
    energy
    environmental fiscal reform
    environmental taxation 
    01 Nov 2013
  • Systemic approach to adaptation to climate change and renewable energy harnessing (Biomass and Mini-hydro)

    Biochar has the potential to both mitigate greenhouse gases, and to act as an adaptation measure in terms of responding to the impacts of climate change. Based on its compatibility with the appropriate soil properties, it could increase the resilience of soil to erosion.

    adaptation
    agriculture
    bioenergy
    CAP
    carbon
    clean development mechanism
    clean technologies
    climate change
    emissions trading
    energy
    flooding
    greenhouse gases
    market based instruments
    transport
    waste 
    15 Aug 2012

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