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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 ...

• 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 ...

• Implementing the Renewable Energy Directive: Consultation Response

  IEEP organised a dialogue around the delivery of the sustainability criteria set out in the Renewable Energy Directive ...

• Major Study on Public Goods Published by IEEP

  The Common Agricultural Policy plays a critical role in helping farmers to deliver environmental goods and services, provided that policies are targeted in the right way. This is the key message of an ...

• The Provision of Public Goods through Agriculture in the European Union

  The report is a first ever attempt to identify the full range of environmental public goods provided by farmers across Europe and sets out the arguments for paying for their delivery via the public purse. ...

• Mandatory Standards for Solid Biomass for Energy Increasingly Unlikely

  IEEP Analysis Briefing: Energy

• Exploring Policy Options for More Sustainable Livestock and Feed Production

  This report has been commissioned by Friends of the Earth to provide evidence for a new campaign on the environmental and social impacts of the livestock sector, entitled 'What's feeding our food?'. An ...

• Study on the economic, social and environmental impact of the modulation provided for in Article 10 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003

  ‘Modulation’ is a policy mechanism, which aims to provide targeted support to rural areas, to improve the competitiveness of the farming and forestry sectors, enhance the environment and improve quality ...

• Developing a National Agri-environment Programme for Turkey

  This Handbook presents many of the key outputs, recommendations and accumulated expertise from a project entitled “Supporting the Development of a National Agri-environment Programme for Turkey” that was undertaken from January 2006 – November 2008...

• Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of CAP Measures Related to the Beef and Milk Sectors

  This evaluation seeks to determine the extent to which price support and direct payments applied in the beef and veal and dairy sectors since 1988 are in coherence with obligations for environmental protection ...

• IEEP launches a new website www.CAP2020.ieep.eu on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Europe

  "Have your say on the future of support to farmers in Europe!" is the message of the new interactive platform for informed and thoughtful commentary, analysis and debate on the issues surrounding the future ...

• IEEP response to Commission Biomass consultation

  IEEP has submitted a response to the European Commission's recent consultation on requirements for a potential EU sustainability scheme for biomass used for energy purposes (separate from transport biofuels ...

• Reflecting Environmental Land Use Needs into EU Policy: Preserving and Enhancing the Environmental Benefits of Unfarmed Features on EU Farmland. Final Report.

  This report provides a rationale for affording greater protection to Europe's stock of farmland features in the future. It examines the distribution and density of features that exist across Europe's agricultural ...

• Evaluation of the Environmental Impact of Milk Quotas

  The aim of this study is to examine the environmental impacts of the different systems for allocation and transfer of milk quota under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in individual Member States of ...

• New Report - Funding for Farmland Biodiversity in the EU: Gaining Evidence for the EU Budget Review

  This report, written for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), aims to initiate a transparent debate on the purpose, intensity and spatial distribution of expenditure on the EU's Common ...

• Funding for Farmland Biodiversity in the EU: Gaining Evidence for the EU Budget Review

  This report aims to initiate a transparent debate on the purpose, intensity and spatial distribution of expenditure on the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) from the perspective of the protection and ...

• Funding for Farmland Biodiversity in the EU: Gaining Evidence for the EU Budget Review - Case Study Reports

  This report contains the five case studies written for the report 'Funding For Farmland Biodiverity in the EU: Gaining Evidence for the EU Budget Review'. The five qualitative case studies - for Finland ...

• Launch of the Report ‘Funding for Farmland Biodiversity in the EU: Gaining Evidence for the EU Budget Review’

  Download Martin Farmers presentation 'Is the Common Agricultural Policy Delivering on Biodiversity? A Mapping Approach' given on 27 June 2008 at the launch of the report 'Funding for ...

• MEACAP WP6 D16a - Analysis of Policy Measures for Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Compliance with the Convention on Biodiversity

  This report analyses policy instruments within the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP) for greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement and compliance with the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and develops policy ...

• MEACAP WP6 D16b - Market Impact Analysis of Biofuel Policy Implementation

  MEACAP WP6 D16b - Market Impact Analysis of Biofuel Policy Implementation