Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • What contributions can agricultural emissions make to the proposed Effort Sharing Regulation?

    New IEEP report finds the agriculture sector can significantly contribute to the EU’s climate commitments by reducing its non-CO2 emissions. It also finds these contributions can be delivered cost efficiently with environmental co-benefits without impacting production.

    agriculture
    CAP
    carbon
    climate and energy package
    climate change
    greenhouse gases
    impact assessment
    IPPC
    land use 
    17 May 2017

  • 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

  • Are Ecological Focus Areas delivering for biodiversity?

    Ecological Focus Areas are intended to safeguard and improve biodiversity on arable farms in the EU. What evidence is there that they are actually delivering biodiversity on farmland?

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    birds
    CAP
    cross-compliance
    land use
    pesticides
    policy instruments 
    01 Dec 2016

  • Ecological Focus Areas – what are their impacts on biodiversity?

    Ecological Focus Areas are intended to safeguard and improve biodiversity on arable farms in the EU. This IEEP study for EEB and BirdLife examined the evidence for potential biodiversity impacts on farmland, taking into account how the areas are being managed.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    birds
    CAP
    cross-compliance
    land use
    pesticides
    policy instruments 
    01 Dec 2016

  • How can Planetary Boundaries guide environmental policy in Europe and globally?

    Planetary Boundaries are a scientific approach to exploring critical thresholds to resource use. How can this concept become relevant for policymakers?

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    carbon
    climate change
    economics
    ecosystem services
    ecosystems
    GDP
    green economy
    land use
    marine
    multilateral environmental agreements
    natural resources
    public goods
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste
    water 
    13 Sep 2016

  • Biodiversity offsets: What did the UK pilot scheme achieve?

    Voluntary biodiversity offsetting was piloted in six English areas by local planning authorities and stakeholder organisations who agreed to take part in the government programme. IEEP and Collingwood Environmental Planning, together with David Tyldesley, assessed the UK government programme from 2012 to 2014.

    biodiversity
    birds
    land use
    nature conservation
    offset
    policy instruments
    sustainable development 
    20 Jul 2016

  • IEEP sets out new sustainability criteria for biofuels post 2020

    Defining effective and workable sustainability criteria for biofuels is one of the critical steps in decarbonising Europe’s energy sector. Such criteria must provide the necessary safeguards for the use of bioresources in Europe, as well as the policy and investment certainty required for sustainable deployment.

    agriculture
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    land use
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production 
    06 May 2016

  • Sustainability criteria for biofuels post 2020

    Defining effective and workable sustainability criteria is one of the critical steps in decarbonising Europe’s energy sector. They must provide the necessary safeguards for the use of bioresources in Europe, as well as the policy and investment certainty required for sustainable deployment.

    agriculture
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    land use
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production 
    06 May 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

  • Protected area approaches in the EU

    Protected areas play an important role in achieving biodiversity conservation targets. IEEP has compared the approaches and rationale of designating and managing protected areas in the UK and a selection of eight other EU Member States.

    best practice
    biodiversity
    climate change
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    ecological network
    ecosystem approach
    land use
    Natura 2000
    nature conservation
    policy instruments
    protected area 
    16 Nov 2015

  • New PEGASUS website

    Project website for EU research project PEGASUS goes live!

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    CAP
    ecosystem services
    forestry
    land use
    livestock
    public goods 
    11 Aug 2015

  • Biodiversity offsets: design of biodiversity metrics and mechanisms for securing long term conservation benefits

    This study by ICF International, IEEP and national experts reviewed international best practice for designing biodiversity offsetting metrics and establishing mechanisms for ensuring long term conservation benefits from offsetting. It explores options for implementation at the European level and possible challenges. The report follows up on the IEEP report on policy options to achieve no net loss of biodiversity.

    biodiversity
    Environmental Impact Assessment
    habitat banking
    land use
    mitigation
    offset
    policy instruments 
    27 May 2015

  • Looking beyond Paris

    The latest edition of IEEP's newsletter is now available. David Baldock argues that in the next six months the EU has a substantive role in contributing to agreement on an ambitious but credible set of SDGs and more stretching climate targets. Also: energy efficiency and security; bioeconomy; and circular economy.

    agri-environment
    biodiversity
    climate change
    environmental fiscal reform
    EU budget
    land use
    sustainable development 
    13 May 2015

  • EU research project PEGASUS - new thinking on sustainable land management

    EU research project PEGASUS kicked off in London on 29-30 April. The three-year project, led by IEEP, is focused on transforming land management approaches in the EU to improve the delivery of public goods and ecosystem services from rural areas.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    ecosystem services
    forestry
    land use
    public goods 
    08 May 2015

  • Evidence before ideology

    The latest edition of IEEP's newsletter is now available. David Baldock argues that in 2015 solid evidence rather than political fashion will be required in scrutinising EU policy and economic performance. Also: fossil fuel subsidies; allocating fishing quota; and the launch of our new training programme.

    agriculture
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    climate change
    ecosystem services
    energy
    fisheries
    land use
    total allowable catches and quotas 
    27 Jan 2015

  • The Manual: Chapter 6 - Waste

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter on EU waste policies focuses on the management of waste, the environmental requirements with which waste management installations must comply and the big picture policy initiatives focused on waste.

    benefits of legislation
    best practice
    better regulation
    chemicals
    environmental action programme
    land use
    natural resources
    thematic strategies
    transport
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive 
    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

  • 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

  • Sustainable intensification of European agriculture

    The concept of sustainable intensification has come into prominence in the context of global food security. This report defines what we mean by sustainable intensification, explains its global logic, discusses what it means for EU agriculture and exemplifies this in three case studies for soil performance, nutrient recycling and biodiversity.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    CAP
    climate change
    ecosystem services
    Environmental Policy Integration
    food
    high nature value
    land use
    Less Favoured Areas
    livestock
    natural resources
    organic farming
    policy instruments
    public goods
    resource use
    sustainability criteria
    sustainable consumption and production 
    25 Jul 2014
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