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• Briefing for MPs on the EU Reform Treaty

  IEEP sent a briefing to MPs on the EU Reform Treaty to mark the start of the ratification process on 21 January. In collaboration with WWF and Green Alliance, the briefing aimed to focus the debate in ...

• Press Release - A New Era for Energy Policy in Europe

  IEEP welcomes the European Commission's policy package on climate and energy, but we consider that this is only a first step on a long road to delivering what is needed to tackle the problems of climate ...

• Transatlantic Debate on MPAs - 22 January

  IEEP and our partner the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are organising a debate on EU and US approaches to marine protected areas.On Tuesday 22 January, IEEP will be holding a teleconference ...

• Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol

  Dr Marc Pallemaerts, Head of the Institute's Environmental Governance Team, was re-elected as a member of the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee at the December conference in Bali. Congratulations to ...

• Effective environmental governance needed in South East Europe

  A recently published article by IEEP's Andrew Farmer outlines the requirements for effective environmental governance, particularly in transition countries.Environmental governance is an important part ...

• Guidance Document to the Member States on the Application of the HNV Impact Indicator

  IEEP has produced a guidance document for Member States on how to monitor changes in HNV Farmland and Forests - corresponding to a suite of indicators in the CMEF to assess the effectiveness of rural development ...

• IEEP takes a view on the Bali conference

  Online environmental magazine Grist has published an article by IEEP's Jason Anderson on the climate conference in Bali. In the article Jason discusses the main topics of debate and speculates on the possible ...

• New edition of the Brussels in Brief newsletter now available

  The fifteenth edition of IEEP Brussels in Brief newsletter focuses on the EU legal and policy framework for issues related to business and biodiversity.Download the latest edition of Brussels in Brief

• Letter to Gordon Brown from the Aldersgate Group on the need for improved standards of carbon reporting

  The Aldersgate Group, of which IEEP is a member, has published an open letter to Gordon Brown in the Financial Times on 13 November 2007 which argues that there is a need for a common protocol for carbon ...

• IEEP Events: EU Strategy for Bali and Beyond and EU/US Climate Policy

  IEEP is holding two debates on the nature of climate policy and how it might evolve: the first comparing EU and US approaches to climate policy and the second debating the EU's Strategy for Bali and Beyond. ...

• EU and US Approaches to Key Climate and Energy Challenges

  IEEP and our partner the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have produced a series of papers on EU and US approaches to cap and trade systems; biofuels; and carbon capture and storage. These papers ...

• IEEP Launches New Website Comparing EU and US Approaches to Environmental Problems

  We are excited to launch a new section mini-site presenting the reports and conclusions from our ongoing initiative a Transatlantic Platform for Action on the Global Environment (T-PAGE).Europe and the ...

• Beyond GDP: Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations

  The European Commission, European Parliament, Club of Rome, OECD and WWF are hosting a high-level conference on the true wealth of nations at the Plenary Room of the European Parliament in Brussels on ...

• WWF - IEEP report on payments for environmental services for conserving biodiversity now published

  IEEP played a key role in a European Commission study that explored the possibilities for establishing PES schemes for biodiversity conservation in two new EU Member States and three Candidate Countries ...

• IEEP study on 6EAP to be discussed at EP workshop on 21 November

  IEEP, together with Ecologic, SYKE, BIO IS and IVM, has drawn up a report, which provides an independent assessment of the achievements of the 6th Environmental Action Programme (6EAP) across all four ...

• Towards the CAP Health Check and the European Budget Review

  IEEP has produced an authoritative analysis of the expected pathway to future CAP reform.The paper, written for the German Marshall Fund, unpicks the Health Check proposals, examines at the likely influence ...

• IEEP produces report on national climate policies for Joint Parliamentary Meeting

  IEEP has drawn up a report which presents national legislation, initiatives and programmes recently launched by EU Member States and EEA countries to tackle and face climate change.The report was requested ...

• Climate change and the rural environment in a European context: Implications for land use and land use policy

  IEEP has written a background paper for the LUPG/BfN conference on 'Future Policies for Rural Europe. 2013 and Beyond', held in Brussels, 19 - 20 September.All four conference papers can be accessed from ...

• Selection of IEEP EU Policy Briefing Notes now available online

  IEEP is pleased to announce that for the first time we are making a limited selection of the weekly briefing notes we provide as part of our EU advisory services available online.IEEP possesses a wealth ...

• UK biofuels proposals sound and pragmatic, but concerns remain

  IEEP has responded to the UK Government's Consultation on the sustainability and carbon reporting system under the Road Transport Fuel Obligation, outlining some key concerns.For biofuels to be a successful ...