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Innovative financing mechanisms for biodiversity: what can Mexico and Europe learn from each other?
IEEP and partners compare innovative biodiversity financing mechanisms in the EU and Mexico and suggest recommendations for mutual learning.
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Innovative mechanisms for financing biodiversity conservation: A comparative summary of experiences from Mexico and Europe
IEEP and partners compared innovative biodiversity conservation funding mechanisms in the EU and Mexico.
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Innovative instruments for conservation funding
IEEP and partners evaluated EU biodiversity conservation funding, including the potential of novel financial instruments
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Plugging the conservation finance gap: a new EU fund?
IEEP and partners evaluate the EU funding landscape for biodiversity conservation. Could a new, dedicated EU fund for biodiversity address the existing financing gap?
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Integration approach to EU biodiversity financing
For the European Union to meet its goals of protecting and restoring biodiversity, the availability and effective delivery of adequate funding is essential. The current EU framework ...
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Access to Nature Reduces Health Inequalities: An IEEP Briefing
Improving access to nature can help address health and social challenges across Europe and reduce health inequalities.
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CAP greening: what are its environmental prospects?
A significant injection of money was agreed for ‘green’ farming practices under the recent CAP reform. This report examines the environmental impact these measures are likely to have on the ground and concludes that Member States’ implementation choices appear to have much diminished the chances of the greening measures delivering significant additional environmental benefits.
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Tracking biodiversity expenditure in the EU budget
The European Commission is in the process of developing a methodology to track biodiversity related expenditure in the EU budget. This effort is similar to the parallel process for tracking ...
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The Manual: Front pages
This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter provides information on the authors, editors and editorial board involved in the Manual, as well as guidance on how to use it, and a brief outline of its content.
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Guidelines for biodiversity proofing the EU budget
This report provides a practical framework to ensure that spending under the EU budget has no negative impacts on biodiversity, and that spending under the EU budget is overall supportive to achieving the biodiversity targets.
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Guidance handbook for financing Natura 2000
An updated ‘Financing Natura 2000 Guidance Handbook’ aims to inform national stakeholders about opportunities for financing the management of Natura 2000 sites through various EU funds during the 2014-2020 period.
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High Nature Value farming throughout EU-27 and its financial support under the CAP
This study reviews Member States’ estimates of the extent of HNV farmland and use of RDP measures and the CMEF indicators, then identifies future priorities for CAP support for HNV farming and discusses the support opportunities under the reformed CAP. It offers detailed new evidence about the combined effect of Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 CAP payments on the economic and environmental viability of a typical HNV farming system in three Member States.
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New report: High Nature Value Farming in the EU
Member States need to make the most of the opportunities under the new Common Agricultural Policy if the declines in HNV farming, critical for meeting our 2020 biodiversity targets, are to be halted.
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Sectoral resource mobilisation to implement global biodiversity targets
There is an urgent need to find sufficient resources to enable developing countries to implement the global targets for biodiversity by 2020. Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity from different sectoral funding flows can complement global biodiversity financing.
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Biodiversity proofing of the EU budget
This study shows how more can be done to firstly avoid and minimize detrimental impacts of EU funding on biodiversity, and secondly to increase biodiversity benefits.
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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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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.
Highlights
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Innovative mechanisms for financing biodiversity conservation: A comparative summary of experiences from Mexico and Europe
IEEP and partners compared innovative biodiversity conservation funding mechanisms in the EU and Mexico.
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Integration approach to EU biodiversity financing
For the European Union to meet its goals of protecting and restoring biodiversity, the availability and effective delivery of adequate funding is essential. The current EU framework ...
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Access to Nature Reduces Health Inequalities: An IEEP Briefing
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CAP greening: what are its environmental prospects?
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Sectoral resource mobilisation to implement global biodiversity targets
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Biodiversity proofing of the EU budget