Climate Change & Energy

Our Work

IEEP has built up significant expertise on the EU budget over the years and has a particular interest in advocating stronger environmental considerations in the EU budget debate.

We have produced a number of papers and reports on this topic in recent years, and the implications of climate change mitigation and adaptation have played an increasingly important role in this work. We have, for example, reviewed EU budgetary resources for supporting climate and energy policy objectives, and examined how the EU budget could be transformed into an instrument to support the fight against climate change. As the consensus around the need for ‘climate proofing’ public expenditure solidifies, we are becoming increasingly interested in clarifying what this might mean in the context of the EU budget, and how best to operationalise climate proofing through a set of concrete strategies and instruments.

Our work on the EU Budget is cross cutting, involving many of our research areas, notably our Governance and Agriculture programmes.

More about our work in this area...

Latest in Climate Change & The EU Budget

  • Environmental policy and the UK’s review of the EU Balance of Competences

    The UK Government’s Balance of Competences review has now taken evidence on 25 subject areas, including the 6 with the most relevance for the Environment. We take stock of the IEEP’s contributions, and consider what a possible UK renegotiation might mean for the environment.

  • EU budget debate: Some one trillion euro questions and answers

    Keti Medarova-Bergstrom, Senior Policy Analyst at IEEP, and Pawel Swidlicki, Research Analyst at Open Europe, put their heads together to identify why and where EU budgetary spending has got it wrong in the past and propose how roughly one trillion euros can better serve Europe's environment, economy and people in the next funding period.