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.

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.

Natura 2000 and Jobs – Scoping the Evidence

The European Natura 2000 network provides job opportunities in sectors ranging from conservation and restoration, agriculture, forestry, fisheries to tourism, recreation, and health.

Innovative instruments for conservation funding

IEEP and partners evaluated EU biodiversity conservation funding, including the potential of novel financial instruments

Plugging the conservation finance gap: a new EU fund?

IEEP and partners evaluate the EU funding landscape for biodiversity conservation. Could a new, dedicated EU fund for biodiversity address the existing financing gap?

Integration approach to EU biodiversity financing

Access to Nature Reduces Health Inequalities: An IEEP Briefing

Improving access to nature can help address health and social challenges across Europe and reduce health inequalities.

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.

What can the UK do to reduce environmental risks from pesticides?

The UK’s action plan on sustainable use of pesticides aims to reduce the risks and impacts of pesticide use on the environment and encourage alternative approaches and techniques. How is the UK doing?

Will Brexit affect the UK’s actions to reduce the environmental impacts of pesticides?

The UK’s action plan on sustainable use of pesticides aims to reduce the impacts of pesticide use on the environment and encourage alternative approaches. How is the UK doing and how could Brexit change the government’s approach to pesticides?

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.

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?

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.

Limits to the circular economy?

The transition to a circular economy is a priority for Europe and an opportunity for many businesses. There is need for scrutiny amongst policy makers to ensure that ecological and socio-economic objectives are met.

Tackling marine litter with the circular economy and the EU Plastics Strategy

IEEP identifies how the EU Plastics Strategy and Circular Economy Action Plan provide a unique opportunity to address marine litter and its impacts.

Plastics, Marine Litter and the Circular Economy

Briefing and three product fiches explore circular economy solutions for reducing the flow of plastic waste into the oceans.

Biofrontiers – sustainability critical to the development of advanced biofuels

Adherence to effective and workable sustainability criteria is an essential requirement when using public support to incentivise advanced alternative fuels.

Understanding the consequences of changing biomass demand for energy

Understanding the consequences of increased biomass demand for energy on the environment is central to the development of future policy on renewable energy in Europe. This study seeks to help answer this need by modelling different levels of biomass demand for energy and the consequences for land use and forest based industries.

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.