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News from 2007
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News: Guidance Document to the Member States on the Application of the HNV Impact Indicator
IEEP has produced a guidance document for Member States on how to monitor changes in HNV Farmland and Forests - corresponding to a suite of indicators in the CMEF to assess the effectiveness of rural development ...
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IEEP takes a view on the Bali conference
Online environmental magazine Grist has published an article by IEEP's Jason Anderson on the climate conference in Bali. In the article Jason discusses the main topics of debate and speculates on the possible ...
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New edition of the Brussels in Brief newsletter now available
The fifteenth edition of IEEP Brussels in Brief newsletter focuses on the EU legal and policy framework for issues related to business and biodiversity.Download the latest edition of Brussels in Brief
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Letter to Gordon Brown from the Aldersgate Group on the need for improved standards of carbon reporting
The Aldersgate Group, of which IEEP is a member, has published an open letter to Gordon Brown in the Financial Times on 13 November 2007 which argues that there is a need for a common protocol for carbon ...
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IEEP Events: EU Strategy for Bali and Beyond and EU/US Climate Policy
IEEP is holding two debates on the nature of climate policy and how it might evolve: the first comparing EU and US approaches to climate policy and the second debating the EU's Strategy for Bali and Beyond. ...
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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 ...
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IEEP Launches New Website Comparing EU and US Approaches to Environmental Problems
We are excited to launch a new section mini-site presenting the reports and conclusions from our ongoing initiative a Transatlantic Platform for Action on the Global Environment (T-PAGE).Europe and the ...
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Beyond GDP: Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations
The European Commission, European Parliament, Club of Rome, OECD and WWF are hosting a high-level conference on the true wealth of nations at the Plenary Room of the European Parliament in Brussels on ...
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WWF - IEEP report on payments for environmental services for conserving biodiversity now published
IEEP played a key role in a European Commission study that explored the possibilities for establishing PES schemes for biodiversity conservation in two new EU Member States and three Candidate Countries ...
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IEEP study on 6EAP to be discussed at EP workshop on 21 November
IEEP, together with Ecologic, SYKE, BIO IS and IVM, has drawn up a report, which provides an independent assessment of the achievements of the 6th Environmental Action Programme (6EAP) across all four ...
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New paper: Towards the CAP Health Check and the European Budget Review
IEEP has produced an authoritative analysis of the expected pathway to future CAP reform.The paper, written for the German Marshall Fund, unpicks the Health Check proposals, examines at the likely influence ...
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IEEP produces report on national climate policies for Joint Parliamentary Meeting
IEEP has drawn up a report which presents national legislation, initiatives and programmes recently launched by EU Member States and EEA countries to tackle and face climate change.The report was requested ...
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News: Climate change and the rural environment in a European context: Implications for land use and land use policy
IEEP has written a background paper for the LUPG/BfN conference on 'Future Policies for Rural Europe. 2013 and Beyond', held in Brussels, 19 - 20 September.All four conference papers can be accessed from ...
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Selection of IEEP EU Policy Briefing Notes now available online
IEEP is pleased to announce that for the first time we are making a limited selection of the weekly briefing notes we provide as part of our EU advisory services available online.IEEP possesses a wealth ...
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UK biofuels proposals sound and pragmatic, but concerns remain
IEEP has responded to the UK Government's Consultation on the sustainability and carbon reporting system under the Road Transport Fuel Obligation, outlining some key concerns.For biofuels to be a successful ...
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Guidance on the maintenance of landscape connectivity features published
IEEP played a key role in the production of a newly published guidance document on the maintenance of landscape connectivity features.The guidance, developed jointly by IEEP, IUCN and Ecological Solutions ...
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New IEEP report makes link between car use, obesity and carbon dioxide emissions
A new report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy and Adrian Davis Associates published on August 13, 2007 highlights the extent to which car use is implicated in the increase in obesity ...
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IEEP responds to Financial Times article on the IPCC
In its August 6, 2007 edition the Financial Times published a letter by Jason Anderson, head of IEEP's Climate Programme.The letter was in response to an article published in the Financial Times on August ...
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Warsaw Seminar Report: relationship between Common Agricultural Policy and Biodiversity
This new report results from an international seminar on the relationship between the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and biodiversity held in Warsaw, Poland on 7 - 8 December 2006, which was hosted ...
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Major study predicts grim future for Europe's seas
The results on a major research project involving 28 institutions (including IEEP) from 15 countries has found that urgent action is needed to ensure Europe's regional seas are protected in the future. ...