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
  • Wildlife crime and the EU

    Wildlife crime threatens global biodiversity. The EU is both a destination and a transit region for illegally-traded products. A new study for the European Parliament summarises the situation in Europe and offers policy recommendations in view of the upcoming EU Action Plan. A set of in-depth case studies outline the situation in five EU countries.

    biodiversity
    birds
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    ecosystems
    enforcement
    fisheries
    marine
    marine protected areas
    natural resources
    nature conservation
    policy instruments
    trade 
    20 Apr 2016
  • New IEEP Programme on the Green Economy

    IEEP strengthens its focus on the Green Economy with a new dedicated programme, coming on stream as from May 1st.

    bioeconomy
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    economics
    ecosystem services
    environmental taxation
    environmentally harmful subsidies
    GDP
    green economy
    market based instruments
    multilateral environmental agreements
    sustainable development
    TEEB
    trade 
    29 Apr 2015
  • 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
  • Environmental legislation and TTIP – looking into the detail

    New study from BIO by Deloitte, Ecologic and IEEP examines key differences in EU and US legislation in eight areas of relevance to the TTIP agreement.

    bioenergy
    energy
    fracking
    natural resources
    shale gas
    trade
    transport 
    18 Nov 2014
  • EU and US Approaches to Key Climate and Energy Challenges

    IEEP and our partner the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have produced a series of papers on EU and US approaches to cap and trade systems; biofuels; and carbon capture and storage. These papers ...

    biofuels
    CAP
    carbon capture and storage
    trade 
    11 Nov 2007
  • Report for WWF highlights the environmental impact of EU agricultural and trade policies

    This newly available paper identifies the major foreseeable environmental impacts of prospective changes in some key EU policies on the global production and trade of agricultural products, particularly ...

    trade 
    12 Sep 2006

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