Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • Innovative financing mechanisms for biodiversity: what can Mexico and Europe learn from each other?

    IEEP and partners compare innovative biodiversity financing mechanisms in the EU and Mexico and suggest recommendations for mutual learning.

    biodiversity
    Birds Directive
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    environmental fiscal reform
    Environmental Policy Integration
    environmental taxation
    EU 2020 strategy
    EU budget
    EU funding
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    governance
    habitat banking
    Habitats Directive
    Natura 2000
    nature conservation
    offset
    payment for ecosystem services
    policy instruments
    structural funds
    sustainable development 
    02 Jun 2017
  • Innovative mechanisms for financing biodiversity conservation: A comparative summary of experiences from Mexico and Europe

    IEEP and partners compared innovative biodiversity conservation funding mechanisms in the EU and Mexico.

    agri-environment
    biodiversity
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    Environmental Policy Integration
    environmental taxation
    EU budget
    EU funding
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    governance
    Natura 2000
    nature conservation
    offset
    payment for ecosystem services
    policy instruments
    sustainable development 
    02 Jun 2017
  • Towards sustainable urban development: city data and indicators

    Expert insights show how urban data indicators are evolving

    air quality
    best practice
    climate change
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    indicators
    monitoring
    pollution
    urban 
    27 Mar 2017
  • Fitness Check of the Birds and Habitats Directives

    The Nature Directives (i.e. Birds Directive and Habitats Directive) are the key instruments of EU environmental policy; the Fitness Check support study, carried out by Milieu, IEEP and ICF for the European Commission DG-ENV, examined their effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, EU-added value and their coherence with the wider acquis.

    agriculture
    better regulation
    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    birds
    Birds Directive
    CAP
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    European Court of Justice
    fisheries
    forestry
    grassland
    Habitats Directive
    land use
    marine protected areas
    Marine Strategy Framework Directive
    Natura 2000
    nature conservation
    policy instruments
    protected area
    regional policy
    renewable energy
    Strategic Environmental Assessment
    sustainable development
    wetland 
    14 Dec 2016
  • European Policy Framework for SDGs

    The European Commission has launched a Communication on how to embed the SDGs in the European policy framework. Read IEEP’s thinking on the ways forward.

    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    governance
    sustainable development 
    14 Dec 2016
  • Beyond GDP Newsletter – March 2016 edition out now

    The March 2016 Beyond GDP newsletter sheds light on the creation of indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals and relates this process to the Europe 2020 and EU Sustainable Development Strategies.

    economics
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU 2020 strategy
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    GDP
    governance
    green economy
    monitoring
    natural resources
    policy instruments
    resource use
    sustainability criteria
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development 
    04 Apr 2016
  • Beyond GDP Newsletter – December 2015 edition out now

    The latest edition of the Beyond GDP newsletter explores indicators for a greener economy and for green growth.

    economics
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    GDP
    green economy
    indicators
    monitoring
    policy instruments
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development 
    05 Jan 2016
  • Beyond GDP Newsletter – August 2015 Edition Available Now

    This edition of the Beyond GDP Newsletter explores the Social Progress Index and discusses approaches to using social indicators in the context of EU economic governance.

    economics
    ecosystem services
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    GDP
    governance
    indicators
    policy instruments
    public goods
    public participation
    resource use
    sustainable development 
    24 Aug 2015
  • Sectoral resource mobilisation to implement global biodiversity targets

    There is an urgent need to find sufficient resources to enable developing countries to implement the global targets for biodiversity by 2020. Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity from different sectoral funding flows can complement global biodiversity financing.

    biodiversity
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    eco-labelling
    ecosystem services
    EU funding
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    financial instruments
    green economy
    habitat banking
    market based instruments
    multilateral environmental agreements
    natural resources
    nature conservation
    payment for ecosystem services
    policy instruments
    sustainable development
    TEEB 
    09 Oct 2013
  • Estimation of the financing needs to implement Target 2 of the Biodiversity Strategy

    IEEP assessed the financing needs to implement Target 2 of the Biodiversity Strategy (target to maintain ecosystem services and restore 15% of degraded ecosystems by 2020) with eftec. The report showed that a large increase in funding will be required if Target 2 is to be attained, but also that there are a range of potential funding sources that could be increasingly used.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    Biodiversity Action Plan
    ecosystem approach
    ecosystems
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    financial instruments
    forestry
    grassland
    land degradation
    nature conservation
    wetland 
    16 Jul 2013
  • European Parliament report on sustainable competitiveness and innovation

    The CAP could, and should, be primarily to assist EU agriculture to become more internationally competitive and sustainable and to achieve this by innovation. It already has many instruments to do this, and the reforms could further assist. However the resources deployed could be far better used.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    CAP
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    green economy
    natural resources
    resource use
    sustainability criteria
    sustainable consumption and production 
    05 Jun 2012
  • Consolidated report: Qualitative analysis key results and policy implications

    There are still needs and opportunities for using sustainability indicators at different stages of the policy processes across all environmentally relevant policy areas.

    biodiversity
    cohesion policy
    Common Fisheries Policy
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    fisheries
    GDP
    green economy
    indicators
    sustainable development 
    15 May 2012
  • Opportunities for a better use of indicators in policy-making

    There remain a wide range of opportunities for making use of sustainability indicators at different stages of the policy process across all environmentally relevant policy areas.

    biodiversity
    cohesion policy
    Common Fisheries Policy
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    fisheries
    GDP
    green economy
    indicators
    sustainable development 
    15 May 2012
  • The EU on the road to Rio+20: towards a sustainable outcome?

    IEEP and the Institute for European Studies (IES) is pleased to invite you to an Environmental Policy Forum on ‘The EU on the road to Rio+20: towards a sustainable outcome?’ which will be held on 23 June 2011 in Brussels.

    EU Sustainable Development Strategy
    sustainable development 
    15 Jun 2011
  • On the road to Rio: Preparing the EU’s position for the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

    IEEP's Marc Pallemaerts and IEEP Board Member Derek Osborn will be presenting at a meeting on 4 May organised by the European Parliament as part of its preparations for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.

    EU Sustainable Development Strategy 
    28 Apr 2011
  • IEEP Publication on the External Dimension of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

    Marc Pallemaerts addresses the impact of the EU’s consumption of natural resources on the global environment with case studies of biofuels, the Common Fisheries Policy and the regulation of international trade in illegally harvested timber, in a new publication.

    EU Sustainable Development Strategy 
    18 Jan 2011
  • Commission Issues Second Progress Report on Implementation of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

    IEEP Analysis Briefing: Sustainable Development

    EU Sustainable Development Strategy 
    31 Jul 2009
  • Policy Forum on the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

    To mark the arrival of the ‘renewed' EU Sustainable Development Strategy, scheduled for approval by the European Council of the 15-16 June 2006, the Institute for European Environmental Policy ...

    EU Sustainable Development Strategy 
    15 Jun 2006

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