- 22 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 ...
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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
- 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 ...
- 8 February 2023
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On Thursday 2 February, representatives of IEEP's network of think tanks Think Sustainable Europe met with Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius to discuss the great benefits ...
- 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. ...
- 13 December 2022
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COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity is taking place in Montreal from 9 to 17 December therefore with only two weeks for the negotiators ...
- 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
- 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
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 21 June 2022
The Interinstitutional Agreement for the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) set the ambition to provide a minimum of EU annual spending to biodiversity objectives, starting ...
- 7 February 2022
This study and its accompanying analysis explore the climate mitigation potential of restoring the habitats protected under the EU Habitats Directive. As part of this, the ...
