- 7 June 2023
The European Green Deal Barometer is based on over 600 sustainability experts’ views on the progress of the Green Deal implementation, its constituent policies and ...
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?
Green Trade Network
The Global Challenges and SDGs team also coordinates the Green Trade Network. Interested in learning more about the network’s activities?
Latest news
- 25 May 2023
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This briefing series monitors upcoming free trade agreements (FTAs) that are either being negotiated or concluded by the European Union and conducts assessments for their ...
- 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 ...
- 8 May 2023
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The European Commission presented new criteria to add to the EU's classification system for sustainable finance for review in a public consultation, for the environmental ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 22 May 2023
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This briefing scopes out sustainability challenges relevant to the EU-Australia trade agreement and is part of an IEEP series aimed at monitoring upcoming free trade ...
- 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 ...
