Marc Pallemaerts
Senior Fellow and Head of Global Issues and External Action Programme
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Phone: +32 (0) 2738 7471
Specialist Subjects:
environmental law and governance, public participation, climate change, chemicals and the EU's role in global environmental policy
Profile:
Marc joined IEEP to head the Environmental Governance team in December 2005, and is based in IEEP's Brussels office. An international lawyer and political scientist by training, he has extensive experience in academic research and teaching as well as in policy work. He has been a policy adviser to the Flemish Regional Environment Minister, to the Belgian Federal State Secretary for the Environment, and was Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the Federal State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development. During the Belgian Presidency of the EU in 2001, he chaired the EU Council working party responsible for the climate change negotiations and acted as lead negotiator for the Presidency at COP6bis (Bonn) and COP7 (Marrakech). From 2003 to 2005, he was chairman the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention. Before joining IEEP, Marc was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2011 Marc became Head of the Institute's new programme Global Issues and External Action.
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Sourcebook on EU Environmental Law
The Sourcebook provides a practical reference document on applicable EU environmental legislation, practices and standards which need to be taken into account in the planning and development of projects supported by Banks that have signed the ‘European Principles for the Environment'.
07 Oct 2011 -
From Copenhagen to Cancún and Beyond: To Kyoto or Not To Kyoto?
The multilateral process was kept alive in Cancún in December, but what of the agreements that were reached? Marc Pallemaerts discusses...
14 Jan 2011 -
Drowning in Process? The Implementation of the EU's 6th Environmental Action Programme
This study evaluates the implementation of the 6EAP across all four of its ‘key environmental priorities’...
04 Oct 2010 -
The Impact of Better Regulation on EU Environmental Policy under the Sixth Environment Action Programme
A part of a series of strategic analyses evaluating the Sixth Environment Action Programme this report evaluates how Better Regulation approaches have shaped the implementation of the objectives set out in the 6EAP in the process of their translation into legislative measures...
01 Jun 2010 -
The External Dimension of the Sixth Environment Action Programme: An Evaluation of Implementing Policy Instruments
This report evaluates the EU’s progress on the external dimension of the 6EAP, with a particular focus on the EU’s consumption and production of global natural resources. It explores the EU’s activities ...
31 May 2010 -
Strategic Orientations of EU Environmental Policy under the Sixth Environment Action Programme and Implications for the Future
Although it is difficult to accurately establish the extent to which an overarchingframework like the 6EAP has influenced policy developments; reflecting on suchissues should inform and help to shape ...
30 Apr 2010 -
Feasibility of implementing a radical ETR and its acceptance
The study provides an analysis of the legal feasibility and political acceptability of a radical Environmental Tax Reform (ETR) within the broader context of EU policies. It explores the scope for using ...
27 Nov 2009 -
Financial Support to Developing Countries for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Is the European Union Meeting Its Earlier Commitments?
This study looks into how the EU has fulfilled a crucial commitment within the so-called Bonn Declaration of 2001, a collective agreement of the then EU-15 and five other OECD donor countries to provide ...
01 Nov 2009 -
Sustainable Development Indicators: overview of relevant FP-funded research and identification of further needs
This report aims to assess the main FP6 and selected FP7 projects (and latest work programmes) which have examined (or refer to) indicators supporting the renewed SDS in order to identify trends and gaps in the research agenda and produce...
31 Aug 2009 -
The Future of EU Environmental Policy: Challenges and Opportunities (2009)
This is a special independent report commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Environment Group (UK)...
21 Jun 2009