Publications
IEEP produces reports and publications on a wide variety of topics.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The New Comitology Rules - Delegated and implementing acts
The Lisbon Treaty substantially modified the framework for the Commission’s implementing powers, commonly known as ‘comitology’. This IEEP report explains the new procedures and gives examples of how they might, or will, apply in the EU biodiversity policy area.
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Thursday, 13 October 2011
Perspectives for the new European Fisheries Fund
Independent evaluation of the EFF, highlighting challenges of implementation faced by Member States and the sector, and providing evidence-based proposals for a future fisheries fund.
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Friday, 07 October 2011
Sourcebook on EU Environmental Law
The Sourcebook provides a practical reference document on applicable EU environmental legislation, practices and standards which need to be taken into account in the planning and development of projects supported by Banks that have signed the ‘European Principles for the Environment'.
Andrew Farmer Jonathan Armstrong Samuela Bassi Catherine Bowyer Sonja Gantioler Kristof Geeraerts Peter Hjerp Megan Lewis Marc Pallemaerts Emma Watkins Sirini WithanaSourcebook on EU Environmental Law PDF 3.3 MB -
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Transboundary Water Security in Central Asia: Addressing the Crisis
Transboundary water issues pose significant security concerns in Central Asia. This briefing summaries the results of a roundtable on the issue, attended by IEEP's Andrew Farmer.
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Friday, 12 August 2011
Mainstreaming the environment and climate change in the post-2013 EU budget
New IEEP paper examines the opportunities and challenges of the proposed ‘mainstreaming’ of climate change and other environmental priorities in the 2014-2020 EU budget.
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Monday, 08 August 2011
2014-2020 EU Multi-annual Financial Framework: Opportunities and Challenges for Climate Change and the Environment
This presentation analyses the Commission proposals on the 2014-2020 Multi-annual Financial Framework unveiled on 29 June 2011. More specifically, it identifies opportunities and challenges for the financing of climate change and the environment in the future EU budget.
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Monday, 01 August 2011
Redesigning the CAP to deliver public goods
As a contribution to the CAP reform debate, this report considers options for redesigning the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to maximise the delivery of public goods, particularly in relation to the environment and rural vitality.
Kaley Hart David Baldock Alison Boyes Bernhard Osterburg Corrado Pirzio-Biroli Andrea Povellato Francesco Vanni Peter WeingartenRedesigning the CAP to deliver public goods PDF 1.2 MB -
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Greening the CAP: Delivering Environmental Outcomes through Pillar One
This opportune paper examines the European Commission’s current proposals for ‘greening’ Pillar 1 of the CAP and their potential to deliver environmental objectives.
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Analysing Bioenergy Implementation in EU Member States: Results from the Biomass Futures Expert Survey
As part of the Biomass Futures project, IEEP has conducted a survey among European policy makers on implementing bioenergy policy, identifying challenges and opportunities.
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
EU Water Policy – fit for purpose?
New report from Deloitte and IEEP assesses the relevance, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency of EU Water Policy.
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Monday, 18 July 2011
Developing a Territorial Approach for the CAP
A timely discussion paper explaining how a territorial approach can be developed within rural development policy and other aspects of the CAP.
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Monday, 11 July 2011
Costs of delivering environmental benefits through agriculture and forestry management
For the first time, this report provides an estimate of the scale of funding needed to achieve environmental outcomes through agricultural and forestry management in the EU to 2020.
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Monday, 11 July 2011
An all-consuming responsibility
This short paper highlights the challenges that the EU faces in delivering a resource efficient society and argues that achieving this would require action across a range of policy areas.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Achieving more climate ambition in the EU: distribution options.
New report by IEEP and Öko Institut explores how the additional effort of moving to a 30 % EU-wide greenhouse gas emission reduction target could be distributed among Member States, and the resources that could be mobilised to support such a move.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Cross-scale governance for water management
A new paper on the challenges of cross-scale governance for water management has been published.
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Friday, 17 June 2011
Promoting Low Carbon Innovations in the EU
"Innovations for a Low Carbon Economy – an overview and assessment of the EU policy landscape" provides an overview and assessment of EU policies which relate to low carbon innovations.
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Friday, 03 June 2011
When Financial Needs Meet Political Realities: Implications for Climate Change in the Post-2013 EU Budget
This paper is the first in a series being produced as part of a policy dialogue platform on the post-2013 EU budget and associated EU funding instruments such as Cohesion Policy.
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Friday, 03 June 2011
When financial needs meet political realities
New IEEP paper urges MEPs to place climate change at the heart of future budgetary negotiations
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Thursday, 26 May 2011
EU Natural Resources policy: Signposts on the roadmap to sustainability
The EU is committed to building improved resource efficiency into its economic strategy, starting with a “roadmap” this year. A new paper from the Institute sets out the challenges, reviews the mixed results of previous EU policy in this area and suggests a number of ways forward. Both a broad vision and an array of practical policy initiatives are required.
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Monday, 09 May 2011
Taking into account opportunity costs when assessing costs of biodiversity and ecosystem action
The study provides an estimate the costs of biodiversity action in the EU with special consideration of opportunity costs.