Water, Marine & Fisheries

Latest in Water Policy

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Water and Wetlands

  This new IEEP-led report presents insights on the importance of wetlands in delivering ecosystem services that are needed to support human life, and also for people’s livelihoods and the world’s economies. The report shows that demonstrating and using the values of ecosystem services related to water and wetlands can lead to better informed, more cost-effective, and fairer decision- making.

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Water and Wetlands

  This new IEEP-led report presents insights on the importance of wetlands in delivering ecosystem services that are needed to support human life, and also for people’s livelihoods and the world’s economies. The report shows that demonstrating and using the values of ecosystem services related to water and wetlands can lead to better informed, more cost-effective, and fairer decision- making.

• The EU Water Blueprint: Assessing the policy options

  The Water Blueprint proposes action to address 12 key problems for Europe’s waters. An IEEP led study found that improved guidance, information system, data exchange and funding were the best instruments to address many of these problems, with limited scope for new law.

• Fitness Check of EU water policy – stakeholder views

  IEEP provided support to the Commission’s development of the Fitness Check through the organisation of an online public consultation and a stakeholder workshop. The results of these two activities can be downloaded here.

• Linking the Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive: Phase 2

  Integrating pollution control into river basin management is a major challenge. A report for IMPEL explores how Member States address this.

• Transboundary Water Security in Central Asia: Addressing the Crisis

  Transboundary water issues pose significant security concerns in Central Asia. This briefing summaries the results of a roundtable on the issue, attended by IEEP's Andrew Farmer.

• EU Water Policy – fit for purpose?

  New report from Deloitte and IEEP assesses the relevance, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency of EU Water Policy.

• Cross-scale governance for water management

  A new paper on the challenges of cross-scale governance for water management has been published.

• Key Messages on the Future of Europe’s Waters

  IEEP has contributed to the production of the key messages from a major water conference contributing to future EU policy development.

• 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.

• Valuing and Conserving Ecosystem Services: a Scoping Case Study in the Danube Basin

  The report for WWF provides an assessment of the value and status of some key ecosystem services in the Danube Basin, and some policy instruments to support them.

• Challenges of Developing an EU Strategic Approach to Water Scarcity

  The introduction in 2000 of the Water Framework Directive provided the first coherent EU legal tool to address water scarcity and this has been supported by further policy aimed directly at ...

• IEEP climate change report at centre of EP discussion

  A report on the complex links between global warming and the world's water - drawn up by IEEP, Ecologic and SYKE - had a central role at Fourth Thematic Session of the European Parliament's Temporary Climate ...

• New Project Examining the Future of Water in Europe

  IEEP, with 19 other partners across Europe, is participating in a four year project to develop scenarios to examine the future of Europe's freshwaters up to 2025.IEEP is focusing on the implications of ...

• Water Framework Directive Implementation Report

  EU Policy Briefing

• Briefing on the European Commission Proposal for a Directive on the protection of groundwater against pollution COM (2003) 550

  An analysis of Commission Proposal for a Directive on the protection of groundwater against pollution COM (2003) 550. This proposal is for a Daughter Directive to the Water Framework ...

• EP Briefing Note on the Commission proposal for a directive on the protection of groundwater against pollution

  This Policy Brief was written at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. It addresses some aspects of the European ...

• Fifty years of the Rhine Commission: A success story in nutrient reduction. Scope Newsletter, Number 47, October 2002

  This edition of the SCOPE Newsletter is produced to mark fifty years of the Rhine Commission. It tells the story of the degradation of the Rhine to the point where most life disappeared and how international ...