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News from 2010
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IEEP Comments on the Commission’s Blueprint for the CAP post 2013
The European Commission has launched its outline proposals for a significant reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Entitled ‘The CAP towards 2020: meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future’, the Communication represents a potentially...
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IEEP Analyses the Impact of EU Biofuel Policy on Land Use Change
A new IEEP report analyses the indirect land use change (ILUC) impact of the substantial additional biofuel usage that will be generated up to 2020 by the targets under the EU renewable energy Directive...
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IEEP at Nagoya Conference: TEEB Highlights Importance of Valuing Natural Capital
On 20 October, 2010 TEEB Synthesis report was presented at the global meeting of the Convention of Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, where 193 countries have convened to commit to addressing biodiversity loss and encouraging synergies between biodiversity, climate, water, economic development and poverty...
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IEEP and Earthscan Launch Manual of European Environmental Policy
IEEP and Earthscan have now published a renewed Manual of European Environmental Policy...
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Evaluation of Cross Compliance in the EU 25
IEEP's two-part evaluation of Member State approaches to cross compliance implementation in the EU 25 is now available.Under Regulation 1782/2003 Cross Compliance was introduced as a compulsory measure ...
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IEEP Summer Newsletter Published
The editorial of our latest online newsletter highlights the EU’s renewed focus on resource efficiency...
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Paper 1: Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments – study published
This IEEP paper ‘Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments’ for the Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) examines a range of transitional arrangements that could facilitate a shift in the basis of CAP payments away from the current system of support, towards one based on a rationale more focused on the provision of environmental goods and services.
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Scoping the Development of the Environmentally Sustainable Production Agenda – paper published
This IEEP paper ‘Scoping the Development of the Environmentally Sustainable Production Agenda’ for the Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) sets out the key issues and questions that need to be considered for the establishment of a Sustainable Production Agenda for Europe and explores the implications of these issues for the development of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2013 – 2020...
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Developing a More Comprehensive Rationale for EU Funding for the Environment – paper published
This IEEP paper ‘Developing a More Comprehensive Rationale for EU Funding for the Environment’ for the Land Use Policy Group’s (LUPG) evaluates the case for using state intervention to reverse existing environmental degradation and deliver improvements, before focusing specifically on the rationale for intervening at the European level...
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IRO Status
IEEP has been awarded Independent Research Organisations status by the UK Research Councils...
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IEEP Spring Newsletter Published
A number of pieces in our latest online newsletter focus on biodiversity to mark the Year of Biodiversity in 2010...
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How Much for Biodiversity? – MEPs join the discussion on the economic value of nature
On 7 April, the Greens and the European Free Alliance (EFA) in the European Parliament organised a stakeholder workshop to discuss the future of the EU biodiversity policy, in particular the role of nature in maintaining human welfare and economic wellbeing.
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IEEP & WWF: possibilities for a more ecosystem-based EU biodiversity policy regime for post-2010
A joint paper by IEEP and WWF discusses what a more ecosystem-focussed approach to EU post-2010 biodiversity policy could entail and what the possible implications of adopting such a regime would be.
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IEEP Conference on Future of the CAP - March 9
IEEP is hosting a conference Visions and Design: Securing a CAP for the Future on 9 March 2010 in Brussels.The event presents the most up-to-date thinking on a future Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to ...
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Join a Day Seminar on the New EU Climate Policies
IEEP is pleased to invite you to a day training seminar ‘The New EU Climate Policies: between Copenhagen and Cancun' organized by The Institute for European Studies (IES) and the Institute for European ...
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IEEP’s Environmentally Harmful Subsidies Study Published
The report is a contribution to the European Commission’s ongoing efforts to investigate and reform environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS).The study is based on three methodologies developed by the ...
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Implementing the Renewable Energy Directive – Sustainability Requirements for Biofuels, the Question of Highly Biodiverse Grasslands
The renewable energy Directive (2009/28/EC) contains targets promoting both renewable energy and renewable transport fuels.Delivering compliance with these targets will increase demand for both biofuels ...
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EU budget can unlock a low-carbon Europe
The EU budget has a crucial role to play in unlocking barriers to climate related investment and providing renewed political and business confidence. IEEP's David Baldock and Camilla Adelle have contributed ...
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Book Launch and Climate Policy Forum in Brussels
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) organise their next Environmental Policy ...
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IEEP Winter Newsletter Published
Browse our latest online newsletter to read some reflections on the Copenhagen Summit, on prospects for EU environmental policy under the new European Commission, on sharing good practice in intensive ...