Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • Ensuring the carbon sustainability of biomass

    Ensuring the carbon sustainability of bioenergy requires a new approach in EU policy. This IEEP report spells out a different pathway to the one proposed by the European Commission in the recently released “winter package”.

    bioeconomy
    bioenergy
    carbon
    Environmental Policy Integration
    forestry
    recycling
    renewable energy
    sustainable consumption and production 
    09 Dec 2016
  • 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.

    benefits of legislation
    Circular economy
    clean technologies
    eco-labelling
    economics
    landfill
    marine
    market based instruments
    monitoring
    packaging
    policy instruments
    pollution
    producer responsibility
    recycling
    renewable energy
    resource use
    sustainability criteria
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive 
    25 Nov 2016
  • 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.

    Circular economy
    eco-labelling
    economics
    landfill
    marine
    Marine litter
    Maritime Policy
    market based instruments
    packaging
    policy instruments
    pollution
    producer responsibility
    recycling
    sustainable consumption and production
    waste
    water quality 
    24 Oct 2016
  • 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.

    Circular economy
    eco-labelling
    economics
    landfill
    marine
    Marine litter
    Marine Strategy Framework Directive
    Maritime Policy
    market based instruments
    packaging
    policy instruments
    pollution
    producer responsibility
    sustainability criteria
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive
    water
    Water Framework Directive
    water quality 
    24 Oct 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
  • The cascading use of woody biomass in the EU – challenges, opportunities and policy solutions

    Improving the resource efficient use of wood through cascading the resource from one use to another, requires action throughout the wood flow. Current efforts focus on recovering and re-using waste wood but more could be done with the production and utilisation of wood processing residues and improving the balancing between the material and energy use of wood.

    bioeconomy
    bioenergy
    carbon
    Circular economy
    Environmental Policy Integration
    forestry
    recycling
    renewable energy
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive 
    29 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
  • 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
  • Mapping study on the cascading use of wood products

    Promoting the cascading use of wood through policy is one approach to improve resource efficiency and increase the overall availability of wood for use in a variety of sectors.

    bioeconomy
    bioenergy
    carbon
    Circular economy
    Environmental Policy Integration
    forestry
    recycling
    renewable energy
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive 
    10 Mar 2016
  • A circular bio-economy in the European agriculture and forestry sectors

    IEEP experts call for bridging the circular and bio-economy concepts, to support the transition of Europe’s land using sectors to a more resource efficient and sustainable future.

    agriculture
    bioeconomy
    CAP
    Circular economy
    forestry
    natural resources
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production 
    29 Jan 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
  • New open access book on marine litter

    A new book, 'Marine Anthropogenic Litter', has been published comprising 16 chapters on various aspects of the complex issue of litter in the world’s oceans. Researchers from IEEP contributed a chapter on the economics of marine litter. The whole book is free to view online.

    biodiversity
    economics
    ecosystem services
    ecosystems
    fisheries
    green economy
    impact assessment
    landfill
    marine
    Maritime Policy
    market based instruments
    natural resources
    packaging
    policy instruments
    pollution
    producer responsibility
    recycling
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production
    waste
    water 
    02 Jun 2015
  • Beyond GDP Newsletter – March 2015 edition out now

    biodiversity
    economics
    ecosystem services
    GDP
    green economy
    indicators
    natural resources
    policy instruments
    sustainable consumption and production
    TEEB 
    20 Mar 2015
  • Priorities and policy options to support the circular economy

    New report by PSI, IEEP, BIO and Ecologic provides an initial scoping assessment of priorities and policy options to support the transition to a circular economy in the EU.

    eco-innovation
    eco-labelling
    governance
    green economy
    producer responsibility
    recycling
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive 
    22 Sep 2014
  • Policy mixes addressing natural resources: learning from real world experiences

    This report synthesizes the assessment of policy-mixes in different sectors. It identifes the factors characterising effective policy-mixes and some of the most frequent shortcomings in policy-mix design.

    eco-innovation
    eco-labelling
    economics
    environmental fiscal reform
    green economy
    market based instruments
    natural resources
    policy instruments
    resource use
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development 
    18 Aug 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
  • On the path to a circular economy

    Read the lastest edition of our newsletter for our views on the circular economy package and much more.

    bioenergy
    economics
    energy
    environmental taxation
    environmentally harmful subsidies
    green economy
    high nature value
    Natura 2000
    natural resources
    nature conservation
    producer responsibility
    sustainable consumption and production
    waste 
    16 Jul 2014
  • Options for sustainable food and agriculture in the EU

    How should Europe respond to the increased demands on our food and agriculture systems arising from global population growth, changing diets, and competing demands on agricultural land? This report offers a view on how the EU could play a role in meeting these challenges in the coming decades and sets out some of the options which merit particular attention.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    climate change
    eco-innovation
    food
    genetically modified organism
    land use
    livestock
    natural resources
    recycling
    soil
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste 
    17 Dec 2013
  • Europe’s role in feeding the world in 2050

    IEEP presents views on how Europe should respond to the increased demands on our food and agriculture systems arising from global population growth, changing diets, and competing demands on agricultural land.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    climate change
    eco-innovation
    food
    genetically modified organism
    land use
    livestock
    natural resources
    recycling
    resource use
    soil
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste 
    17 Dec 2013
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