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News from January 2011

• Improving Enforcement of Waste Shipment Controls

  Should there be more explicit obligations for inspections of waste shipments in EU law? The Commission has launched a consultation drawing on IEEP’s work.

• IEEP Publication on the External Dimension of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

  Marc Pallemaerts addresses the impact of the EU’s consumption of natural resources on the global environment with case studies of biofuels, the Common Fisheries Policy and the regulation of international trade in illegally harvested timber, in a new publication.

• ILUC report in the news

  IEEP's study on Indirect Land Use Change continues to receive high media attention.

• From Copenhagen to Cancún and Beyond: To Kyoto or Not To Kyoto?

  The multilateral process was kept alive in Cancún in December, but what of the agreements that were reached? Marc Pallemaerts discusses...