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• Benefit Assessment Manual for Policy Makers: Assessment of Social and Economic Benefits of Enhanced Environmental Protection in the ENPI countries

  This benefit Assessment Manual, originally for internal use, has been turned into a Benefit Assessment Manual for policy makers and experts for wider dissemination and provides an understanding of the methodologies applied for the country benefit assessments.

• Analysis for European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Countries and the Russian Federation on social and economic benefits of enhanced environmental protection – Egypt Country Report

  There are considerable benefits from taking immediate action to address the environmental problems facing Egypt, including in the area of air pollution, water quality and infrastructures and waste management, and safeguarding its natural heritage.

• Regional Synthesis Report: ENPI South - Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, occupied Palestinian territory, Syria and Tunisia

  Investing in improving environmental standards in the ENPI South countries would offer huge benefits in terms of cost savings, improved security (food, water, energy and climate), and improved quality of life.

• Regional Synthesis Report: ENPI East – Synthesis report on: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine

  Investing in improving environmental standards in the ENPI East countries would offer huge benefits in terms of cost savings, improved security (food, water, energy and climate), and improved quality of life.

• Evidence to the House of Lords Inquiry into EU Freshwater Policy

  IEEP’s evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee explores the future of EU water policy and the challenges it faces

• Water Scarcity Briefings

  Water scarcity is a major threat to Europe’s waters. Three briefings have been produced summarizing research on this issue and setting out the European policy context.

• Fitness Check of EU water policy – stakeholder views

  IEEP provided support to the Commission’s development of the Fitness Check through the organisation of an online public consultation and a stakeholder workshop. The results of these two activities can be downloaded here.

• Green Infrastructure Implementation and Efficiency

  This IEEP-led study for the European Commission (DG ENV) improves the knowledge base on green infrastructure policy initiatives in Europe and assesses their implementation and efficiency. It also formulates policy recommendations for integrating green infrastructure into the EU policy framework.

• Linking the Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive: Phase 2

  Integrating pollution control into river basin management is a major challenge. A report for IMPEL explores how Member States address this.

• Transboundary Water Security in Central Asia: Addressing the Crisis

  Transboundary water issues pose significant security concerns in Central Asia. This briefing summaries the results of a roundtable on the issue, attended by IEEP's Andrew Farmer.

• EU Water Policy – fit for purpose?

  New report from Deloitte and IEEP assesses the relevance, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency of EU Water Policy.

• Cross-scale governance for water management

  A new paper on the challenges of cross-scale governance for water management has been published.

• Key Messages on the Future of Europe’s Waters

  IEEP has contributed to the production of the key messages from a major water conference contributing to future EU policy development.

• The Future of Europe’s Waters

  IEEP to contribute to major Council Presidency conference on the threats to water resources and how we are to respond.

• Valuing and Conserving Ecosystem Services: a Scoping Case Study in the Danube Basin

  The report for WWF provides an assessment of the value and status of some key ecosystem services in the Danube Basin, and some policy instruments to support them.

• Linking the Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive

  Integrating pollution control into river basin management is a major challenge. A new report for IMPEL explores how EU addresses this interaction.

• Challenges of Developing an EU Strategic Approach to Water Scarcity

  The introduction in 2000 of the Water Framework Directive provided the first coherent EU legal tool to address water scarcity and this has been supported by further policy aimed directly at ...

• Setting Environmental Standards within a Socio-economic Context

  This publication is a chapter in the book: Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality and Human Health Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil. Editors: Mark Crane, Peter Matthiessen, Graham ...

• IEEP climate change report at centre of EP discussion

  A report on the complex links between global warming and the world's water - drawn up by IEEP, Ecologic and SYKE - had a central role at Fourth Thematic Session of the European Parliament's Temporary Climate ...

• Water scarcity and droughts

  The main topics addressed by this study are: the economic effects of water scarcity and droughts, effects on ecosystems and public health, effects of climate change, water price policies in the Member ...