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The Institute for Environmental Policy (IEEP), in collaboration with the European Landowners Organisation (ELO), is organising a science-policy conference to explore the crucial yet often ...
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
For more information
on the IEEP Biodiversity and Ecosystems programme please contact:
Evelyn Underwood
Head of programme
Pollinator conservation
Pollinators like butterflies, honeybees, solitary bees, bumblebees, moths and hoverflies are under considerable threat, showing drastic declines in Europe.
IEEP was involved in supporting the European Commission in implementing the EU Pollinators Initiative, a framework launched in June 2018 and revised in January 2023 to address the decline of pollinators across the EU.
The initiative’s overall priorities are to improve knowledge of pollinator decline, including its causes and consequences, tackle the causes of the decline and raise awareness, engaging society-at-large and promoting collaboration.
IEEP is a member of Safeguard, a Horizon-2020 project aiming to contribute to reversing the loss of wild pollinators across Europe by expanding our current assessment and understanding of their status and trends.
To learn more about what the EU is doing for pollinators, including contributions by IEEP, visit the EU Pollinator Information Hive.
Latest news
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Cities are planning how to increase urban green spaces for nature and for a healthy environment that is adapted to climate change. Pollinators are part ...
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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 ...
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The European Commission held a public consultation to collect views on the implementation of the EU Pollinators Initiative and gather suggestions on how to strengthen ...
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Building on its extensive work on pollinator conservation, IEEP is joining forces with 25 organisations to contribute to reversing the decline of wild pollinators in ...
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Transitioning to pollinator-friendly farming practices is key to the recovery of pollinators. IEEP has been contributing to EU action for pollinators through a project supporting ...
Latest publications
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This guidance aims to bring tools and knowledge for cities to use pollinators as indicators of their urban greening and carry out pollinator monitoring. ...
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This report reviewed seven national CAP Strategic Plans to see whether and to what extent the planned interventions support biological control and Integrated Pest Management. ...
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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 ...
This report explores how nature restoration can contribute to improving the resilience of food production by enhancing ecosystem services and reducing negative impacts of extreme ...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (SUD) are two key EU policies that present opportunities to tackle the pressures ...
To reverse the decline of pollinators, stakeholders across the EU need to take up pollinator-friendly practices . In support of the EU Pollinators initiative, IEEP ...