Our Work
The environmental governance team covers strategic questions and examines the mechanics and processes behind the formulation and implementation of environmental policies. Our work is spread across a wide, often cross-cutting, range of issues. Key tasks include monitoring current developments in EU environmental policy, including the role of the budget, assessing environmental policy integration and policy coherence, conducting impact assessment and policy evaluation studies, evaluating policy implementation and enforcement, and looking at the global dimension of European environmental policy.
Latest in Environmental Governance
What does Brexit mean for the next 40 years of EU environmental policy?
IEEP Honorary Fellow and former Executive Director, Nigel Haigh, reflects on the achievements of EU environmental policy and looks ahead to the Environment in a EU post Brexit.
Innovative instruments for conservation funding
IEEP and partners evaluated EU biodiversity conservation funding, including the potential of novel financial instruments
Plugging the conservation finance gap: a new EU fund?
IEEP and partners evaluate the EU funding landscape for biodiversity conservation. Could a new, dedicated EU fund for biodiversity address the existing financing gap?
Integration approach to EU biodiversity financing
For the European Union to meet its goals of protecting and restoring biodiversity, the availability and effective delivery of adequate funding is essential. The current EU framework …
Towards sustainable urban development: city data and indicators
Expert insights show how urban data indicators are evolving
Access to Nature Reduces Health Inequalities: An IEEP Briefing
Improving access to nature can help address health and social challenges across Europe and reduce health inequalities.
Towards sustainability: Future policies for European livestock
The CAP is failing to reward adequately those livestock farmers who produce public goods. Brexit and CAP reform are opportunities to do better.
Marine microplastics: IEEP contributes to report leading to UN Environment Assembly resolution
IEEP contributed to a major international report leading to a UN Environment Assembly Resolution calling for global action on marine plastic litter and microplastics.
Sustainability reporting in the private sector increases in importance
Sustainability reporting in the private sector increases transparency of social and environmental business impacts. What are the benefits?
European Policy Framework for SDGs
The European Commission has launched a Communication on how to embed the SDGs in the European policy framework. Read IEEP’s thinking on the ways forward.
New study on the Health and Social Benefits of Biodiversity and Nature Protection
Protecting nature and biodiversity is helping to tackle urgent health and social challenges across Europe. A new IEEP study shows how urban, suburban and rural green areas bring multiple and often overlooked benefits to society.
IEEP steps up work on the multiple benefits of biodiversity
IEEP explores the multiple benefits of nature, showing that health, social and economic benefits can complement biodiversity’s intrinsic value.
Beyond GDP Newsletter – March 2016 edition out now
The March 2016 Beyond GDP newsletter sheds light on the creation of indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals and relates this process to the Europe 2020 and EU Sustainable Development Strategies.
Health and social benefits of nature – Workshop outcomes
IEEP and partners organised an EU-wide workshop on the health and social benefits of nature and biodiversity protection in January.
Implications of Brexit for UK Environmental Policy and Regulation – a report for APPG
There is an important environmental dimension to any decision by the UK to leave the EU. This paper for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Environment Group (APPG) explores the options that might be pursued outside the EU and considers the potential impact on environmental and climate policy.
The importance of tackling environmental crime
IEEP supported the final conference of the EU EFFACE project, focusing on the importance of adopting improved measures to tackle environmental crime.
Keeping up to date with Beyond GDP – regional indicators in Europe
There have been a number of recent developments on Beyond GDP; IEEP’s Green Economy team provide an update.
Beyond GDP Newsletter – December 2015 edition out now
The latest edition of the Beyond GDP newsletter explores indicators for a greener economy and for green growth.
How well has EU Cohesion Policy supported energy efficiency in buildings?
IEEP, with Danish consultancy Ramboll, has evaluated the contributions of the 2007-2013 Cohesion Policy programmes to energy efficiency in public and residential buildings.
Volkswagen: Painful Lessons
The latest edition of IEEP’s newsletter is now available. David Baldock discusses Volkswagen and lack of implementation and compliance across EU environmental policy in general. Also: greening of the CAP; Marine Protected Areas; and LULUCF.