- 20 February 2023
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This policy brief stems from the adoption of the Global Biodiversity
Framework at the COP15 and calls for the EU to build on the momentum to ...
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
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on the IEEP Biodiversity and Ecosystems programme please contact:
Evelyn Underwood
Head of programme
Biodiversity mainstreaming and coherence with other policy areas
The mainstreaming of biodiversity considerations across policy areas and sectors is crucial to achieving the transformative change needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. In the context of the European Green Deal, the new EU Biodiversity Strategy intends to work in tandem with other key EU Green Deal Pillars such as the Climate Law, Farm to Fork Strategy, Zero Pollution Action Plan, Soil Strategy, and the Circular Economy Action Plan.
IEEP aims to enhance the mainstreaming of biodiversity to ensure integration and coherence between EU biodiversity conservation and other policies. To promote engagement and buy-in from all actors of society needed to propel transformative change, we promote a broader and deeper shared societal recognition of the value of biodiversity to our development and well-being.
Key areas
Valuing benefits of biodiversity
Biodiversity and land use
Biodiversity and climate change
Biodiversity and EU funding programmes
Latest news
- 18 January 2023
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The restoration of ecosystems is crucial to achieving climate mitigation targets, and this is reflected in the recent global and EU ambitions for nature restoration. ...
- 5 December 2022
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Governments have shown less political will to support biodiversity conservation targets than for climate targets, but the two are actually interdependent and should be tackled ...
Latest publications
- 14 December 2016
The Nature Directives (i.e. Birds Directive and Habitats Directive) are the key instruments of EU biodiversity policy; the Fitness Check support study for the European ...
- 1 December 2016
Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs), part of greening in the Common Agricultural Policy, are intended to safeguard and improve biodiversity on arable farms in the EU. ...
- 20 April 2016
Wildlife crime poses a threat to biodiversity and is a security issue in some source countries. The EU is both a destination and a transit ...
- 30 November 2015
Buildings are responsible for around 40 per cent of the European Union’s final energy consumption and approximately 36 per cent of the EU’s CO2 emissions. ...
- 16 November 2015
Protected areas play an important role in achieving biodiversity conservation targets. IEEP has compared the approaches and rationale of designating and managing protected areas in ...
