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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.

• 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.

• When financial needs meet political realities

  New IEEP paper urges MEPs to place climate change at the heart of future budgetary negotiations

• Natural resources policy – the next frontier?

  Improved resource efficiency is considered the core environmental challenge alongside climate change. A new IEEP paper reviews the mixed results of previous EU Natural Resources policy and suggests a number of ways forward.

• Spring Newsletter published

  The latest edition of IEEP's newsletter is now available with articles on green economy, the fitness of European water policy, and much more...

• Eliminating discards -what can be done?

  IEEP's Indrani Lutchman will be on a panel at the European Parliament today (4 May 2011) to discuss ways to reduce or eliminate the wasteful practice of discarding unwanted catches of fish.

• 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 supports development of Finnish Strategy on Invasive Alien Species

  After two years of work by over a hundred experts the Finnish Strategy on Invasive Alien Species (IAS) has been published. IEEP’s Marianne Kettunen played a central role in supporting the development of the Strategy.

• IEEP Manual Wins Prestigious Award

  IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy has been given an award for Excellence in European Information Provision by the European Information Association.

• Cutting-edge Book on the Economics of Ecosystems Out Now

  Described by Nicholas Stern as a 'landmark' work, a full account of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, edited by institute staff, is now published by Earthscan.

• New Update of the Manual

  The latest update of IEEP’s flagship publication – the Manual of European Environmental Policy – is now available online.

• Initiating a TEEB Assessment for the Nordic Countries

  IEEP and the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) join forces to explore the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity in the context of the Nordic countries.

• The Future of Europe’s Waters

  IEEP to contribute to major Council Presidency conference on the threats to water resources and how we are to respond.

• IEEP Work Features Prominently in European Commission Natura 2000 Publication

  Two reports in which IEEP was significantly involved provide the basis for lead articles in the European Commission publication on Natura 2000 in December.

• Out Soon: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

  The second volume from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study, edited by Patrick ten Brink, Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) is to be published in March 2011.

• Improving Enforcement of Waste Shipment Controls

  Should there be more explicit obligations for inspections of waste shipments in EU law? The Commission has launched a consultation drawing on IEEP’s work.

• 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.

• ILUC report in the news

  IEEP's study on Indirect Land Use Change continues to receive high media attention.

• 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...

• IEEP Comments on the Commission’s Blueprint for the CAP post 2013

  The European Commission has launched its outline proposals for a significant reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Entitled ‘The CAP towards 2020: meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future’, the Communication represents a potentially...