- 7 June 2023
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on the IEEP Biodiversity and Ecosystems programme please contact:
Evelyn Underwood
Head of programme
Overview
The Biodiversity and Ecosystems programme supports the EU’s ambition to reverse current biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation to put nature on a path to recovery by 2030.
Through our work, we help ensure that key EU biodiversity decision-making is based on sound and widely supported evidence and that biodiversity considerations are effectively mainstreamed across relevant policy areas and sectors. Healthy, well-functioning ecosystems and the services they provide underpin the EU’s socio-economic well-being and long-term sustainability. By highlighting and demonstrating the vital benefits of biodiversity, we hope to inspire actors across society to meaningfully engage in its preservation and restoration.
IEEP has extensive experience of biodiversity-related policy analysis having assessed and advised the development, implementation, monitoring, and enforcement of key EU biodiversity policies. Our current work focuses on the biodiversity elements of the European Green Deal, including the EU Biodiversity Strategy.
Key priorities
Supporting the full, effective, and timely implementation of the EU biodiversity policy framework including the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, the Birds and Habitats Directives, the Natura 2000 network, and the proposed EU Nature Restoration Law.
Strengthening the mainstreaming of biodiversity to ensure integration and coherence between EU biodiversity conservation and other policies including land use and agriculture, climate mitigation and adaptation, water and fisheries, regional development, the internal market and global trade, public spending, and sustainable finance.
Contributing to halting the decline of pollinators in the EU by supporting the implementation of the EU Pollinators Initiative.
Latest news
- 25 May 2023
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Panellists will discuss why the Nature Restoration Law proposal is needed for food security, and how to best support farmers and fishers in their costs ...
- 23 May 2023
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On 20 April in Stockholm, SEI hosted the Think2030 Dialogue, converging policy makers, business leaders and researchers from across Europe. This high-profile event co-organised by ...
- 19 May 2023
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The Greek government has adopted a legally binding commitment to establish national monitoring to reverse the decline of pollinators. The EU Pollinator monitoring scheme (EU ...
- 22 February 2023
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Since it was launched in 2019, the European Green Deal (EGD) has represented a comprehensive package of policies aiming at a holistic change towards climate ...
- 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 ...
Latest publications
- 29 March 2023
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EU funded projects have made a lot of progress in pollinator research in the last 20 years, but major knowledge gaps remain that the Safeguard ...
- 12 January 2023
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IEEP and the Ecologic Institute, as part of the Think Sustainable Europe network, have prepared a series of thematic policy briefs to inform policymakers of ...
- 12 January 2023
This report, co-authored by Ecologic and IEEP, demonstrates that despite both the potential benefits and risks of carbon farming for biodiversity, most of the current ...
- 17 November 2022
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The proposed EU regulation for nature restoration offers a unique opportunity to tackle both biodiversity loss and climate change through an integrated approach. ...
- 5 July 2022
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The long-awaited proposal for an EU nature restoration regulation was finally presented on 22 June by the European Commission, highlighting an ambitious legislative framework to restore degraded ...
- 22 June 2022
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After several delays, the highly anticipated proposal for an EU law on nature restoration is now out. The adoption of this proposal would mark a ...
