As EU leaders meet in Versailles, energy is set to be a key topic. But leaders must ensure that the decisions they make to break away from Russian energy push the EU in the direction of sustainability, argue European sustainability think tanks.
With the urgent need for evidence-based decision making in Europe, at the end of 2019 IEEP brought together leading sustainability think tanks to form Think Sustainable Europe, a network dedicated to providing policymakers across the continent with sound, science-based analysis and recommendations.
Faced with the emergency of the COVID-19 crisis, there is a great temptation for recovery plans to prop up yesterday’s economy instead of “building back better”. Instead, recovery plans and any economic stimulus must pass five tests, argue European sustainability think tanks.
This report presents the results of an independent evaluation of the 6th Environment Action Programme (6EAP). The overall objective of this evaluation was to provide an in-depth assessment of the achievements of the 6EAP since its adoption in 2002 to the end of 2010.
This report evaluates the EU’s progress on the external dimension of the 6EAP, with a particular focus on the EU’s consumption and production of global natural resources. It explores the EU’s activities ...
The EU budget has a crucial role to play in unlocking barriers to climate related investment and providing renewed political and business confidence. IEEP's David Baldock and Camilla Adelle have contributed ...
The new IEEP and WWF paper reveals that financial contribution to biodiversity from the Community budget remains low. This is particularly alarming as the threats facing biodiversity at the global and ...
Financial contribution to biodiversity from the Community budget remains low, in particular when the threats facing biodiversity at the global and European level are escalating and increasing levels of ...
This report aims to assess the main FP6 and selected FP7 projects (and latest work programmes) which have examined (or refer to) indicators supporting the renewed SDS in order to identify trends and gaps in the research agenda and produce...
The EU’s goal is to get at least 20 per cent of its energy supplies from alternative energy sources by the year 2020 and climate change and energy will be high on the agenda for the upcoming Swedish Presidency. ...
This paper provides an early overview of the prospects for implementation of the EU climate action and renewable energy (CARE) package across the EU at Member State level, as of spring 2009. It is based ...
This report sets out the budget review debate so far, as well as the key issues of reference to the environment which are likely to be on the agenda during future stages of debate and subsequent budget negotiations...
This paper, commissioned by the European Parliament Committee on Budgets, provides a review of recent EU climate and energy policy developments. It considers the future implications of these developments ...
The paper discusses the similarities and differences in EU and US public opinions towards the environment and climate change in light of the different governmental approaches taken on both sides of the ...
This report assesses to what extent the EU budget has contributed to achieving the EU’s climate change objectives and sets out arguments on how and why the EU budget might support the fight against climate change in the future...
IEEP sent a briefing to MPs on the EU Reform Treaty to mark the start of the ratification process on 21 January. In collaboration with WWF and Green Alliance, the briefing aimed to focus the debate in ...
This briefing reviews existing literature and outlines arguments for and against the early inclusion (e.g. from 2008) of aviation in the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS). It concludes that such an early ...
This briefing reviewed the scientific evidence linking climate change and recent natural disasters. It concluded that our theoretical understanding of the physical processes that lie behind climate change ...