European Parliament report on sustainable competitiveness and innovation

The CAP could, and should, be primarily to assist EU agriculture to become more internationally competitive and sustainable and to achieve this by innovation. It already has many instruments to do this, and the reforms could further assist. However the resources deployed could be far better used.

Consolidated report: Qualitative analysis key results and policy implications

There are still needs and opportunities for using sustainability indicators at different stages of the policy processes across all environmentally relevant policy areas.

Opportunities for a better use of indicators in policy-making

There remain a wide range of opportunities for making use of sustainability indicators at different stages of the policy process across all environmentally relevant policy areas.

The EU on the road to Rio+20: towards a sustainable outcome?

IEEP and the Institute for European Studies (IES) is pleased to invite you to an Environmental Policy Forum on ‘The EU on the road to Rio+20: towards a sustainable outcome?’ which will be held on 23 June 2011 in Brussels.

On the road to Rio: Preparing the EU’s position for the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

IEEP's Marc Pallemaerts and IEEP Board Member Derek Osborn will be presenting at a meeting on 4 May organised by the European Parliament as part of its preparations for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.

IEEP Publication on the External Dimension of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

Marc Pallemaerts addresses the impact of the EU’s consumption of natural resources on the global environment with case studies of biofuels, the Common Fisheries Policy and the regulation of international trade in illegally harvested timber, in a new publication.

Commission Issues Second Progress Report on Implementation of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

IEEP Analysis Briefing: Sustainable Development

Programme of Conference on the External Aspects of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

Programme of the Conference on the External Aspects of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy to be held in Brussels on 28 January 2009.

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 ...

Revisiting the EU SDS