- 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 ...
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Sustainable finance
The European and global sustainability transition must be accelerated. This requires a substantial ramping up of investments to deliver on the EU’s climate and environmental goals.
IEEP is working to redirect the use of both public finances on sustainability (through existing public policy) and private finance through the EU‘s broader sustainable finance agenda, including the Taxonomy on sustainable finance. IEEP represents environmental think-tanks on the EU’s expert group – the Platform on Sustainable Finance, supporting robust science-based criteria.
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- 20 April 2021
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European tax systems today are neither fair nor green. But a new political grand bargain on tax is now possible that can help boost jobs, ...
- 31 March 2021
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Governments around the world have pledged huge sums toward recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In some cases, this recovery funding aims to build back better ...
- 15 October 2020
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Dr Ben Allen, from IEEP's Research Director, has been named co-rapporteur for the Technical Working Group of the EU's Platform on Sustainable Finance. ...
Latest publications
- 21 March 2022
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In 2021, the European Commission committed to ending the use of cages for farmed animals within the EU before the end of 2023, but no ...
- 14 October 2020
This report provides input to the ongoing development of the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. It sets out the biodiversity and ecosystem objectives to which substantial ...
- 22 January 2016
The report for the European Commission DG Environment explores the potential benefits of environmental tax reforms across all of the 28 EU Member States.
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- 10 March 2014
Proper implementation of the ambitious Europe 2020 strategy would require very large scale investments. While the EU budget can provide support for the strategy, its ...
