Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • Towards sustainability: Future policies for European livestock

    The CAP is failing to reward adequately those livestock farmers who produce public goods. Brexit and CAP reform are opportunities to do better.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    food
    grassland
    greenhouse gases
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    policy instruments
    trade 
    01 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
  • Result-based agri-environment measures: market-based instruments, incentives or rewards?

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    ecosystem services
    grassland
    high nature value
    market based instruments
    payment for ecosystem services 
    27 May 2015
  • New guidance for farmland management in Natura 2000

    New guidance for farmland management in Natura 2000 gives agricultural and conservation authorities a step-by-step guide to management and funding measures and practical advice on habitat and species management.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    Birds Directive
    grassland
    Habitats Directive
    high nature value
    Natura 2000
    nature conservation 
    29 Aug 2014
  • High Nature Value farming throughout EU-27 and its financial support under the CAP

    This study reviews Member States’ estimates of the extent of HNV farmland and use of RDP measures and the CMEF indicators, then identifies future priorities for CAP support for HNV farming and discusses the support opportunities under the reformed CAP. It offers detailed new evidence about the combined effect of Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 CAP payments on the economic and environmental viability of a typical HNV farming system in three Member States.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    Biodiversity Action Plan
    Birds Directive
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    ecosystems
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU funding
    financial instruments
    grassland
    Habitats Directive
    high nature value
    indicators
    land use
    livestock
    Natura 2000
    natural resources
    nature conservation
    organic farming
    payment for ecosystem services
    public goods
    soil
    subsidiarity 
    16 May 2014
  • New report: High Nature Value Farming in the EU

    Member States need to make the most of the opportunities under the new Common Agricultural Policy if the declines in HNV farming, critical for meeting our 2020 biodiversity targets, are to be halted.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    Birds Directive
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    ecosystems
    EU funding
    grassland
    Habitats Directive
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    Natura 2000
    organic farming
    payment for ecosystem services
    soil 
    16 May 2014
  • 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
  • A greener CAP: still within reach?

    The greening of the CAP hangs in the balance in the final negotiations; a synthesis of key issues and requirements.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    CAP
    cross-compliance
    EU budget
    EU funding
    EU institutions
    governance
    grassland
    land use
    public goods 
    29 Apr 2013
  • Delivering environmental benefits through entry-level agri-environment schemes in the EU

    A new study of the 2007-13 agri-environment schemes across the whole of EU-27 provides the first typology of ‘entry-level’ agri-environment management and environmental objectives, plus a detailed insight into the design of entry-level agri-environment schemes and calculation of payment rates in seven Member States.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    Biodiversity Action Plan
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU funding
    financial instruments
    grassland
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    payment for ecosystem services
    public goods
    soil
    subsidiarity 
    21 Mar 2012
  • Impacts of climate change and renewable energy on Natura 2000

    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.

    adaptation
    biodiversity
    climate change
    grassland
    impact assessment
    mitigation
    renewable energy
    wind turbine 
    16 Feb 2011
  • Implementing the Renewable Energy Directive – Sustainability Requirements for Biofuels, the Question of Highly Biodiverse Grasslands

    The renewable energy Directive (2009/28/EC) contains targets promoting both renewable energy and renewable transport fuels.Delivering compliance with these targets will increase demand for both biofuels ...

    biofuels
    grassland
    renewable energy 
    08 Feb 2010
  • Implementing the Renewable Energy Directive: Consultation Response

    IEEP organised a dialogue around the delivery of the sustainability criteria set out in the Renewable Energy Directive ...

    bioenergy
    grassland
    renewable energy 
    08 Feb 2010

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