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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.
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Commission sets out proposals for post-2013 EU budget
IEEP provides an environmental perspective on the European Commission’s EU budget proposals for the 2014-2020 period.
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EU budget post 2013 – IEEP Pre-briefings
The European Commission is due to publish its budget proposals for post 2013 period. IEEP has identified key issues that the ‘greenness’ of the proposals could be judged by.
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When Financial Needs Meet Political Realities: Implications for Climate Change in the Post-2013 EU Budget
This paper is the first in a series being produced as part of a policy dialogue platform on the post-2013 EU budget and associated EU funding instruments such as Cohesion Policy.
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Climate and the Budget: EU Member States and stakeholders discuss IEEP study at workshop
More than 70 participants from European governments, the European Commission and other stakeholders gathered in Brussels on 28-29 March 2011 to discuss how the post-2013 EU budget should deal with investment needs in climate change and managing natural resources during a two-day workshop co-organised by IEEP together with the Dutch and Belgian governments.
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Funding Natura 2000
The study assesses the successes and shortcomings of the existing EU framework for funding Natura 2000 and identifies possibilities for improving these financing arrangements in the future.
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Strategies and Instruments for Climate Proofing the EU Budget
This report advances the conceptual understanding of the concept of climate proofing the EU budget and offers ways to operationalise it in the debate on the post-2013 Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).
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Greening the EU Budget - what are the issues?
In the run up to the legislative proposals on the post-2013 EU Multiannual Financial Framework due in June 2011, this Policy Brief offers a short analysis of some critical aspects of the debate and outlines a set of ‘stepping stones’ for strengthening the environmental dimension of the proposals.
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Strategies and Instruments for Climate Proofing the EU Budget - Interim Report
The EU budget is one option in the EU's tool box to deliver policy results. There is a growing view among policy stakeholders that the future EU budget should not only dedicte targeted spending to climate change mitigation and adaptation actions but also horizontally integrate climate change measures across all spending areas...
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EU budget can unlock a low-carbon Europe
The EU budget has a crucial role to play in unlocking barriers to climate related investment and providing renewed political and business confidence. IEEP's David Baldock and Camilla Adelle have contributed ...
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Biodiversity is eligible for more support from the EU Budget
The new IEEP and WWF paper reveals that financial contribution to biodiversity from the Community budget remains low. This is particularly alarming as the threats facing biodiversity at the global and ...
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Understanding and Influencing the EU Budget Review
This report sets out the budget review debate so far, as well as the key issues of reference to the environment which are likely to be on the agenda during future stages of debate and subsequent budget negotiations...
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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 ...
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EU Budget Review: ‘Turning the EU Budget into an Instrument to Support the Fight Against Climate Change
A report by IEEP ‘Turning the EU Budget into an Instrument to Support the Fight Against Climate Change' was presented by Marc Pallemaerts on the 14 April at the Centre for European Policy Studies ...