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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.

• 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.

• Natura 2000 and Jobs – Scoping the Evidence

  The European Natura 2000 network provides job opportunities in sectors ranging from conservation and restoration, agriculture, forestry, fisheries to tourism, recreation, and health.

• Innovative instruments for conservation funding

  IEEP and partners evaluated EU biodiversity conservation funding, including the potential of novel financial instruments

• 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?

• 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 ...

• 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.

• Towards sustainability: Future policies for European livestock

  The CAP is failing to reward adequately those livestock farmers who produce public goods. Brexit and CAP reform are opportunities to do better.

• What can the UK do to reduce environmental risks from pesticides?

  The UK’s action plan on sustainable use of pesticides aims to reduce the risks and impacts of pesticide use on the environment and encourage alternative approaches and techniques. How is the UK doing?

• Will Brexit affect the UK’s actions to reduce the environmental impacts of pesticides?

  The UK’s action plan on sustainable use of pesticides aims to reduce the impacts of pesticide use on the environment and encourage alternative approaches. How is the UK doing and how could Brexit change the government’s approach to pesticides?

• Fitness Check of the Birds and Habitats Directives

  The Nature Directives (i.e. Birds Directive and Habitats Directive) are the key instruments of EU environmental policy; the Fitness Check support study, carried out by Milieu, IEEP and ICF for the European Commission DG-ENV, examined their effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, EU-added value and their coherence with the wider acquis.

• Are Ecological Focus Areas delivering for biodiversity?

  Ecological Focus Areas are intended to safeguard and improve biodiversity on arable farms in the EU. What evidence is there that they are actually delivering biodiversity on farmland?

• Ecological Focus Areas – what are their impacts on biodiversity?

  Ecological Focus Areas are intended to safeguard and improve biodiversity on arable farms in the EU. This IEEP study for EEB and BirdLife examined the evidence for potential biodiversity impacts on farmland, taking into account how the areas are being managed.

• Biodiversity offsets: What did the UK pilot scheme achieve?

  Voluntary biodiversity offsetting was piloted in six English areas by local planning authorities and stakeholder organisations who agreed to take part in the government programme. IEEP and Collingwood Environmental Planning, together with David Tyldesley, assessed the UK government programme from 2012 to 2014.

• Wildlife crime and the EU

  Wildlife crime threatens global biodiversity. The EU is both a destination and a transit region for illegally-traded products. A new study for the European Parliament summarises the situation in Europe and offers policy recommendations in view of the upcoming EU Action Plan. A set of in-depth case studies outline the situation in five EU countries.

• Protected area approaches in the EU

  Protected areas play an important role in achieving biodiversity conservation targets. IEEP has compared the approaches and rationale of designating and managing protected areas in the UK and a selection of eight other EU Member States.

• Nature, Health and Jobs: IEEP at Green Week 2015

  Drawing on recent work by the Institute, IEEP’s Patrick ten Brink will present at Green Week 2015 on Jobs & Growth through Green Infrastructure (3 June 2015 - 16:30-18:00, Session 2.2) and on Health and Social Benefits of Nature and Biodiversity Protection (4 June 2015 - 09:30-11:00, Session 3.3).

• Biodiversity offsets: design of biodiversity metrics and mechanisms for securing long term conservation benefits

  This study by ICF International, IEEP and national experts reviewed international best practice for designing biodiversity offsetting metrics and establishing mechanisms for ensuring long term conservation benefits from offsetting. It explores options for implementation at the European level and possible challenges. The report follows up on the IEEP report on policy options to achieve no net loss of biodiversity.

• Nature and the green economy – IEEP contributing to China’s eco-civilisation drive

  IEEP’s Patrick ten Brink presented on Nature and its Role in the Transition to a Green Economy at the TEEB Multi-stakeholder International Workshop held on 21-22 January in Beijing, China. The talk contributed to current discussions in China on how decision-makers can better consider the multiple values of nature and ecosystems, with a focus on protected areas.

• Access IEEP’s definitive guide to European environmental policy

  The award-winning Manual of European Environmental Policy is now available on IEEP’s website. This archive provides free access to the definitive guide to the development of European environmental policy.