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IEEP Participates in Commission expert panel on integrated product policy
IEEP Senior Fellow Marc Pallemaerts has been invited by DG Environment to participate in an Expert Panel. The panel has been established by the Commission to advise it on the preparation of a report on ...
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EU's 'Renewed' Sustainable Development Strategy Debated at IEEP Forum in European Parliament
A few days after its adoption by heads of state and government at their mid-June Brussels summit, the 'Renewed' EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) was the focus of a well-attended public event ...
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Sustainable Case for Rail Position Paper Launched
IEEP were commissioned by the RMT Union to produce a position paper on the sustainable case for rail. Initially presented at a RMT Parliamentary Group Seminar held in the Houses of Parliament in June, ...
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Policy Forum on the EU Sustainable Development Strategy
To mark the arrival of the ‘renewed' EU Sustainable Development Strategy, scheduled for approval by the European Council of the 15-16 June 2006, the Institute for European Environmental Policy ...
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Commission finalises Natura 2000 Guidance Handbook
The European Commission has finalised the text of a Guidance Handbook to assist Member State authorities in identifying funding opportunities for Natura 2000. IEEP's nature and biodiversity researchers ...
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Green Foundations: Better Regulation and a Healthy Environment for Growth and Jobs
Future economic prosperity and high environmental and social standards must go hand in hand, according to a new report launched in the House of Commons (UK) on 6 June 2006. Commissioned by the Aldersgate ...
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Addendum to MEACAP report now available
Addendum to the report The Kyoto Protocol: Current State and Implication for EU-25 Member States. A Focus on Agriculture and Forestry. This addendum provides a brief update on new developments in international ...
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Applying OMC to Environment Policy – What are the Options?
This report investigates the potential options for applying the open method of coordination (OMC) to EU environment policy, given the growing feeling that traditional approaches to policy are not always ...
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Press Release: Leader or Laggard? Report on UK Climate Change Policy released
The UK Government's recently launched Climate Change Programme is scrutinised in a new report. Internationally the UK has been a leader but on domestic policy it has been a laggard, falling short in the ...
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Press Release: Report on implementation of 6EAP
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) has today released a report prepared by IEEP on the implementation of the EU's 6th Environmental Action Programme (6EAP). Agreed in 2002, the 6EAP sets out priority ...
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Conference on simplification of environmental regulation
The European Commission is hosting a conference on 22 June in Brussels examining best practices in the Member States of initiatives which will streamline and simplify environment-related regulatory requirements ...
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New report: MEACAP: Expected impact of the Kyoto Protocol on European forestry
This report explores the expected impact of the Kyoto Protocol on European forestry. In particular the potential for the Forest Management option is examined. The report concludes that the position of ...
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MEACAP: Selection and specification of technical measures in
This report explores the expected impact of the Kyoto Protocol on European forestry. In particular the potential for the Forest Management option is examined. The report concludes that the position of ...
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Report on Conflicting EU Funds released
A report describing the ways in which use of European funds may clash with nature and biodiversity conservation objectives was released by WWF at the start of March. IEEP assisted WWF in compiling this ...
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Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance
"Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance" has been published by MIT Press. The book describes the results of an EU Research Project to which IEEP contributed, and examines how EU laws ...
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IEEP report in European Parliament hearing
Jason Anderson's report on climate change and natural disasters, written for the European Parliament's Environment Committee, was discussed in a joint public hearing of the Committees of the Environment ...
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Workshop on Best Practice in Analysing and Developing Environmental Policies (November 2005) - conclusion
Member States have considerable flexibility in transposing EU environmental policy which often leaves choices to them over the level of ambition, the measures they take to reach their targets and other ...
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Workshop on Best Practice in Analysing and Developing Environmental Policies (November 2005) - background
Member States have considerable flexibility in transposing EU environmental policy which often leaves choices to them over the level of ambition, the measures they take to reach their targets and other ...
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Market-based instruments for environmental policy in Europe
This report gives an overview of the most recent innovative applications of economic-based instruments for environmental policy in Europe.
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Exploration of options for the implementation of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) for environmental policy: Executive Summary
This report is one of three outputs from the IEEP/Ecologic project exploring the options for applying OMC to Community environment policy. It was commissioned by the Dutch Environment Ministry (VROM) due ...
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Make it Work project for smarter EU environmental law
The Make it Work project is an initiative of the Netherlands, UK and Germany, supported by IEEP, to deliver higher quality EU environmental law and so help deliver the benefits of that law.
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Charting Europe’s Environmental Policy Future
Advancing the debate on the future strategic framework of EU environmental policy by analysing the needs, priorities and delivery mechanisms of a 7th EAP.