- 22 March 2023
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In the past 30 years we have gone from a cautious first assessment report in the 90s to a frankly frightening sixth assessment report from ...
Global Challenges and SDGs
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on the Global Challenges and SDGs programme, please contact:
Antoine Oger
Head of programme
Overview
The European Union’s impact on both the global environment and on environmental policy beyond its borders is significant. This influence will likely remain in the years ahead, although its role as a driver of progress is challenged as major economic players and new international political dynamics emerge.
IEEP’s work on Global Challenges and SDGs focuses on the global dimension and external impacts of EU policies, both positive and negative. We support the development of environmental and environment-related policies with global implications as well as feed into relevant international processes and discussions. In particular, we aim to ensure that the EU will deliver on its commitments to the global climate and 2030 SDG agendas, both in terms of its internal and external policies.
Questions we aim to shed some lights on include:
- How should EU’s role evolve in a changing world? What can Europe offer – and learn – through efforts on global dialogue and diplomacy?
- How can the EU and its Member States best support the delivery of global commitments, such as the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
- How can the EU leverage its trade policy to support sustainable development worldwide?
- How can its own policies align better to global imperatives?
Latest news
- 22 March 2023
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The global demand for Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) is expected to increase substantially in the context of the green and digital transitions, while the EU ...
- 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 ...
- 16 January 2023
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In December 2022, the Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on the CBAM and the reform of the EU ETS. While these new instruments ...
- 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 ...
- 8 December 2022
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EU institutions reached a political agreement on the much anticipated deforestation-free value chains regulation, that aims to minimise deforestation and forest degradation embedded in products ...
Latest publications
- 15 March 2023
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This briefing assesses the environmental credentials of the EU-Chile trade agreement and is part of an IEEP series aimed at monitoring upcoming free trade agreements ...
- 9 March 2023
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This briefing assesses the environmental credentials of the EU-New Zealand trade agreement as part of an IEEP series aimed at monitoring upcoming free trade agreements ...
- 9 February 2023
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This briefing assesses the European Commission's new approach to TSD
Chapters. It discusses the most notable aspects of the new TSD Chapter approach and takes stock ...
- 14 October 2022
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The time for the EU to act and minimise its share of global deforestation is now. The Deforestation-free supply chains Regulation is vital to begin addressing the ...
- 8 September 2022
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The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence proposal has the potential to transform the way business is conducted in Europe. Consideration of climate change-related adverse human rights ...
- 18 July 2022
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The EU is moving ahead on its ambition to develop and implement a European circular economy, as ambitioned by the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) and ...
