Newsletter Closing Loops: Summer 2018 Towardseditorial an Effective Titlepost-2020 TITLE Science- Policy-Society Interface in Europe

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Editorial Newsletter Closing loops: Summer 2018 TowardsEditorial an effective TITLEpost-2020 TITLE science- policy-society interface in Europe

In this issue P.2 Closing loops: Towards an effective post-2020 science-policy-society interface in Europe

P.4 Think 2030 speakers and partners announced

P.6 New appointments and presenting the IEEP Strategic Advisory Council

P.13 IEEP Annual Review 2016 – 17

P.14 2018-19 European Policy Calendar

P.18 Books & Publications

P.19 Conferences & Events Closing loops: Towards an effective post-2020 science-policy-society interface in Europe

by Céline Charveriat IEEP Executive Director

Sustainable Development learning and knowledge creation”2. ruptive forces and tipping points Goals are disruptive. They Indeed, an effective science-policy and building not only on applied sci- imply a radical departure interface should include horizon ence, but also evidence developed “ scanning and foresight, address by practitioners directly involved from business as usual…likely to require new ways to approach short-term expertise needs, pro- in the implementation of policies. the science-policy interface.”1 vide consolidated views from a Moreover, this process must be able range of science and analytical to accommodate divergent view- disciplines, identify policy-relevant points from policy-makers who are These conclusions from the 2016 knowledge gaps to inform EU and driven more by beliefs than scien- UN’s Forum for Science, Technol- Member States’ research priori- tific evidence and by today’s inter- ogy and Innovation of the SDGs ties, and communicate clearly and ests to voters than by the interests of are important to bear in mind for honestly to inform public debate on future generations. Harnessing new Europe’s current policy context. complex issues.3 sources of information, such as big What will be the scientific basis data, would be also essential. for Europe’s post-2020 strategy To rise to the challenge posed by and budgetary choices? What evi- the SDGs - an integrated framework There are less than 5,000 days left to dence and analysis do we need to including economic, political, social 2030. Given the delay between the help develop an 8th Environmen- and environmental objectives - formulation of new European poli- tal Action Plan that is genuinely science-policy interfaces must also cies and the delivery of outcomes, aligned to the Sustainable Devel- be capable of embracing complex- identifying how quickly action must opment Goals (SDGs)? ity, where facts can be “uncertain, be taken is key, hence the need for values in dispute, stakes high and back-casting exercises to inform According to Kastrinos (2018), the decisions urgent”.4 This requires immediate policy priorities. key for the pursuit of sustainable addressing dynamic, non-linear development is “the reflexivity of and uncertain interactions between Innovating to improve citizen the political process... reflexive objectives, taking into account dis- involvement and engagement is also governance combines democratic essential, for instance in the context representation with processes of 2 Nikos Kastrinos. 2018. Do statistics need foresight? Arti- of goals such as SDG12 (sustain- cle published in Foresight.Vol.20 Issue 2, pp.137-149. able production and consumption), 3 Nesshöver, C., Ten Brink, P., & Balian, E. 2014. Summary report and recommendations on Improving the Science- which can only be achieved through Policy Interface for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Europe (contract: Ref No 07-0307/2013/661961/SER/B2). radical behavioural change. While 1 UNEP. 2017. Strengthening the science-policy interface. A Gap Analysis. 4 Funtowicz, S. and Ravetz, J., 1993. “Science for the post- the European public continues to normal age”, Futures, 31(7): 735-755. IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 have a high level of trust for science, there is growing discomfort about the perceived lack of independence of science, its potential dangers and the lack of communications from scientists to the public.5 In Euro- barometer’s 2015 survey of public opinion, citizens expressed concerns about the drawbacks from science and technological change, including “privacy and data security concerns, unemployment, growing technological dependency and deskilling, worsening of relationships, social exclusion, a sedentary lifestyle, and effects on the environment.”6 Figure 1: The Clustering of SDGs in the BOHEMIA study (2017) Unfortunately, the forthcoming European Commission reflection innovation. Sophisticated modelling its political and economic impacts. paper, “Towards a Sustainable and foresight will of course be What sets the IPCC apart from other Europe by 2030, on the follow-up conducted in order to formulate a independent scientific bodies, is to the UN Sustainable Development long-term climate action plan of the its dual nature of being also inter- Goals, including on the Paris EU. While climate action is essential governmental, which explains why Agreement on Climate Change”, to achieve the SDGs, it is not the IPCC reports are reviewed, modi- meant to set the strategic direction only planetary boundary we risk fied and then formally adopted by for Europe’s implementation breaching. Failing to consider other member governments of the IPCC. of SDGs, will not be based on a challenges might have detrimental quantitative analysis of Europe’s effects on achieving other SDGs, for It might be time for Europe to build distance from meeting the SDGs. It instance SDG15 (life on land). There on this success and establish a simi- will derive its political conclusions will surely be many interesting lar multidisciplinary body, dedicated from a number of sources including research projects pertaining to to Europe, encompassing all SDGs, recommendations from civil SDGs, but none that will provide whose independence would be society, a qualitative foresight consolidated views from science guaranteed by adequate statutes study conducted by the JRC and in order to inform policy-makers at and resources, and whose report Eurostat’s 2017 report on SDGs, the highest level. would be formally adopted by the which provides little information European Council to ensure neces- on distance from the targets. Given the current landscape, what sary political buy-in. Trend analysis and foresight were should the European Commission’s conducted in preparation for the reflection paper propose? It is hard This would certainly be a radical new research programme of the to imagine that the Paris agreement departure from business as usual, EU, Horizon Europe. However, these could have happened without the in line with the fundamentally dis- preparatory documents, including works of the Intergovernmental ruptive nature of the SDGs. the Bohemia study (see Figure 1), Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). are not part of the political debate The IPCC was set up by the World Post-2020 science-policy inter- and logically approach the SDGs Meteorological Organisation and face as well as other sustainability through the lens of research and UNEP, with high levels of political challenges will be discussed at the support from national governments upcoming Think 2030 conference, 5 European Commission. 2010. Special Eurobarometer. Science and Technology Report. http://ec.europa.eu/com- and, among other sources, funding taking place in Brussels on October mfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/ebs/ebs_340_en.pdf. th th 6 European Commission. 2015. Eurobarometer Qualita- from the EU. Its task is to provide 17 and 18 , 2018. tive Study. PUBLIC OPINION ON FUTURE INNOVATIONS, the world with an objective, sci- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Aggregate Report. http:// ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/ entific view of climate change and quali/ql_futureofscience_en.pdf. IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Think 2030 speakers and partners announced

IEEP’s new Brussels sustainability platform,Think 2030, ommendations for the next European Commission, announces high-level speakers and partners. Parliament and for Member States. The conference will take place on October 17-18th, 2018, in Brussels. Convening a diverse range of stakeholders to discuss and propose solutions to Europe’s most pressing sustainability issues, Think 2030 will produce policy rec-

Core Partner

Knowledge and Stakeholder Partners

Find out more on www.Think2030.eu

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 17 October 2018 Stakeholder consultation and research community engagement

Daniel Calleja Crespo Hans Bruyninckx Director General Executive Director DG ENV European Environment Agency

18 October 2018 Parliamentary workshop

Patrick Anthony Child Sirpa Pietikäinen (both days) Deputy Director-General Honorary Chair of IEEP DG RTD Member of the European Parliament

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 New appointments and presenting the IEEP Strategic Advisory Council

Faustine Bas-Defossez and Ben Allen appointed to lead Agriculture and Land Management Programme

We are pleased to announce Faus- that, she worked for the European played an integral role in develop- tine Bas-Defossez and Ben Allen Commission Directorate-General ing IEEP’s position on EU bioenergy have taken over leadership of our for Agriculture and Rural Develop- and biofuels policy from a land use Agriculture and Land Manage- ment on the European Food Aid for perspective, with links to the wider ment programme. Kaley Hart, who the most deprived programme and bio-economy in the EU and global stepped down from this position in the public goods delivered by the context. March, will continue to contribute agriculture sector. to our growing agricultural work as Together, Ben and Faustine are Senior Fellow. Having spent five years working as developing IEEP’s agriculture and a policy adviser on agri-environ- land management policy work with Faustine, a French national with ment, CAP and bio-energy issues a forward looking perspective to far-off German origins, spent the for the statutory nature conserva- 2030, mid-century and beyond, to last eight years leading the larg- tion agencies in the UK,Ben joined ensure the EU’s food, farming and est federation of environmental IEEP in 2010 to focus on EU policy rural land-using sectors develop NGOs’ - the European Environ- issues. He holds a Ph.D. in land use in a way that is compatible with mental Bureau (EEB) – campaign and spatial ecology and has led a the UN Sustainable Development on the Common Agriculture Pol- wide variety of projects address- Goals (SDGs), the Paris agreement icy (CAP), advocating for a more ing resource use and climate and the EU environmental acquis. sustainable agriculture and farm- objectives in agriculture, forestry ing sector across Europe. Before and other rural land uses. Ben has

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Andrew Farmer appointed to lead new Natural Resources and Circular Economy Programme

The former Head of our Waste, designed to tackle evolving Euro- worked for English Nature; prior to Water and Industry Programme, pean and international environmen- that, he undertook post-doctoral Andrew Farmer, has been appointed tal challenges. research at Imperial College and at to lead our newly created Natural the Universities of Wisconsin and Resources and Circular Economy Andrew is a biologist by training Florida, USA. He has a degree from Programme. Merging outputs from and specializes in EU legislation in Oxford University in natural sci- our Green Economy and Industry, relation to better regulation, water ences and a Ph.D. in ecology from Waste and Water Programmes, the management and pollution control. St Andrews University. new cross-cutting work stream is Before joining IEEP in 1997, Andrew

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Marianne Kettunen appointed to lead new Global Challenges and SDGs Programme

Principle Policy Analyst, Marianne Marianne has over fifteen years of and led a range of projects linked Kettunen, has been appointed expertise in EU and international to natural capital and the green to lead our newly created Global biodiversity policy with a special economy, socio-economic benefits Challenges and SDGs Programme. focus on the integration of nature of nature conservation, biodiversity Having championed the Institute’s into sectoral policies and decision- financing and external dimensions global portfolio of work throughout making, especially through assessing of the EU biodiversity policy. her whole IEEP career, Marianne and the socio-economic importance of her team will explore global sustain- biodiversity and ecosystem services. ability challenges and the EU’s role in Since joining IEEP in 2005, she has the context of the UN’s Sustainable contributed to a range of EU and Development Goals framework. international policy developments,

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 IEEP announces new Strategic Advisory Council

In order to drive IEEP’s goal to create a more sustainable Europe, IEEP has established a new Strategic Advisory Council. Led by Finnish MEP and IEEP Honorary Chair, Sirpa Pietikäinen, the council will provide inspiration on new projects and guidance on the political and societal implica- tions of the Institute’s pursuits.

Chair Sirpa Pietikäinen, MEP, Finland Committee, where she is a shadow rapporteur for the European Parlia- Ms Sirpa Pietikäinen is a Finnish ment’s own initiative report on Sus- member of the European People’s tainable Finance. She is a substitute Party (EPP) in the European Parlia- member of the Women’s Rights and ment. She is a former Finnish Min- Gender Equality Committee and ister of Environment (1991-1995). the Environment, Public Health and Ms Pietikäinen first came to the Food Safety Committee. She is active European Parliament in 2008, and in several organisations and her was re-elected in 2009 and 2014. positions of trust include Chairman- At the European Parliament, Ms ship of the GLOBE EU, a platform for Pietikäinen is a member of the dialogue between legislators and a Economic and Monetary Affairs diversity of stakeholders.

Members Andrea Kohl, Acting Director and WWF Germany in 2001 as head of EPO Programme Director, WWF the conservation department and European Policy Office member of the management team. She then moved to WWF EU as Pro- Ms Andrea Kohl is an acting direc- gramme Director and Deputy Direc- tor and programme director at tor in 2006. WWF, where she is responsible for heading the office of around 40 permanent staff representing WWF’s interests towards the Euro- pean institutions. An agronomist by training, Andrea Kohl joined

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Christian Hey, Director for Climate, the regional integrated climate miti- Sustainable Urban Development gation and adaption plan. and Biodiversity He was Secretary General of the Dr Christian Hey is Director for Cli- German Advisory Council on the mate, Sustainable Urban Develop- Environment between 2001 and ment and Biodiversity in the Hes- 2016 and EU Policy Director of EEB sian Ministry for the Environment, (1997 – 2001) before that. He has a Climate, Agriculture and Consumer Diploma in Science of Public Admin- Protection. His responsibilities also istration, Ph.D. in Political Sciences include the Hessian Sustainable and wrote his Doctoral Thesis on Development Strategy, the Hessian “Sustainable Mobility in Europe”. He Biodiversity Strategy, the implemen- has published on EU Environment, tation of Natura 2000 in Hessen and Climate and Transport Policies.

Derek Osborn, IEEP Board Member with its planning and creation. He is a non-exec Director of Sev- Derek Osborn served 30 years in ern Trent PLC, and Chair of Jupiter the UK Civil Service, for the latter Global Green Investment Trust. He six years as Director-General for is involved in several environmental Environmental Protection with the organizations including UNED Forum Department of the Environment and Board member of the IIED. until retirement in January 1996. He represented the United Kingdom and was Chair of the Management Board of the European Environment Agency. He was on the Board of the Environment Agency for England and Wales having been involved

Domingo Jiménez Beltrán, IEEP Domingo was the first Executive Board Member Director of the European Environ- ment Agency for eight years until Domingo Jiménez Beltrán has exten- 2002, and later on Adviser at the sive experience, mostly in the field Economic Office of the Spanish of environmental protection, natu- President, founder and first Direc- ral resources and energy manage- tor of the Spanish Observatory for ment, and sustainable progress, Sustainability. both in private enterprises (production, manufacturing, engineering Domingo is currently a Consulting and consulting) and public admin- Engineer and Adviser of Govern- istration at regional, national and ments, Business and Institutes, and EU level, as well as active lecturer, seats in the Board of several Founda- writer and professor. tions and Associations.

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Nick Molho, Executive Director, and membership and bringing its Aldersgate Group influence to bear on areas that are core to the Group’s interest. Nick is Nick was appointed Executive Direc- the lead author of Aldersgate Group tor of the Aldersgate Group in Octo- reports and a regular commentator ber 2014. He is responsible for the on sustainability issues. He was most overall management of the Alders- recently Head of Climate Change gate Group, including the develop- and Energy Policy at WWF-UK fol- ment of its work programme, its lowing a career as an environmental relationships with key political and and energy lawyer at CMS Cameron business stakeholders and its robust McKenna, where he spent six years representation of member views to working on commercial energy law government ministers and parlia- for a range of international busi- mentarians. He has played a key role nesses, regulators and governments. in broadening the Group’s impact

Petros Fassoulas, European Move- working for the European Commis- ment International, Secretary sion, the Committee of the Regions General as well as in advocacy and lobby- ing. Petros comments frequently on Petros Fassoulas has been the Secre- EU issues and has featured on BBC tary General of the European Move- News, CNN, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera ment International since July 2015. as well as the Guardian, Le Soir, El Previously Petros worked as ACCA’s Pais, Ta Nea, Der Spiegel, Euractiv, Head of Public Affairs Europe. He POLITICO Europe among others. He was also EU Affairs Adviser at the holds a degree from the University UK’s Financial Services Authority of Wales, Aberystwyth and a Mas- and before that he was EU Affairs ters from the London School of Eco- Adviser at the UK Parliament. Pet- nomics. ros also spent five years in Brussels,

Ralph Hallo, Brussels Strategics, of the boards of Climate Network Founder and Director Europe (Brussels) and Milieukon- takt Oost-Europa (Amsterdam). He Ralph Hallo is an environmental holds a law degree from New York lawyer and former President of the University and previously worked in European Environmental Bureau environmental law in the U.S. He is (EEB). He is director of Brussels Stra- a recently elected member of the tegics, a European policy advisory Municipal Council of the town in the service consultancy he established Netherlands where he resides. after serving as Senior Advisor Euro- pean Affairs for Stichting Natuur en Milieu (NL). He was a member of IEEP’s Board for a decade, until 2017. He has also been a member

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Sandrine Dixson-Declève, moting green business. She is a Independent Consultant distinguished member of The Club of Rome; a Senior Associate and Until recently, Sandrine was Chief faculty member of the Cambridge Partnership Officer for UN Agency Institute for Sustainability Leader- Sustainable Energy for All and prior ship (CISL); Chair of the INKEMIA to that the Director of the Prince of Scientific Advisory Board; Member Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group of The Guardian’s Sustainable Busi- and the EU office of the Cambridge ness Advisory Board; Member of Institute for Sustainability Lead- the European Aluminium’s Sustain- ership (2009-2016). During that ability Advisory Board; Member of period she was also appointed the Climate KIC Advisory Board. She Executive Director of the Green was Vice Chair, European Biofuels Growth Platform bringing together Technology Platform 2008-2016; EU Ministers and CEOs. Sandrine Board member, We Mean Business was recognised by GreenBiz as one 2014-2016 and on the Advisory of the 30 most influential women Board of the Oil and Gas major Sasol across the globe driving change in from 2007-2010. the low carbon economy and pro-

Yann Ollivier, Senior Journalist, Ollivier started his journalistic career AFP-Services in 1998 at The Associated Press in Paris. He then joined AFP in 1999 Mr Yann Ollivier is a senior journal- and has worked as a correspond- ist on EU affairs in Brussels at AFP- ent in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Services, Agence France-Presse’s Strasbourg, where he became the corporate and institutional -com regional chief editor. In his profes- munications subsidiary. He is cur- sional career he has been covering rently involved in the European Par- French, German and international liament’s EuroparlTV project and news. He has also been covering the heads a team of video journalists, European Parliament sessions, as scriptwriters, editors and graphic well as EU Affairs in the fields of Jus- designers producing videos dis- tice, Foreign Affairs, Development seminated on social networks. Yann Aid, Agriculture and Fisheries.

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 IEEP Annual Review 2016 – 17

IEEP is delighted to release its Annual Review for 2016-17. In this edition, Executive Director, Celine Charveriat, and Honorary Chair, Sirpa Pietikäinen, introduce IEEP’s new sustainability platform, Think 2030, and present the institute’s highlights and strategy.

Read the Annual Review here.

2017 ANNUAL REVIEW

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 2018 - 19 European Policy Calendar

June High Level Political Forum – 9 - 18 July – UNHQ, New York

Slovenian Parliamentary Elections – Slovenia – 3 June The EU’s vision for a modern, clean economy - Stakeholder event – 10 - 11 July – Brussels Informal Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – Informal EU Workshop on Climate Change – 11 - 13 July – 3 - 5 June – Sofia, Bulgaria Austria EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) – 4 - 8 June – Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) – 13 July Brussels – Brussels G7 summit – 8 - 9 June – Charlevoix, Canada Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – 16 July – Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE) Brussels council (energy) – 11 June – Luxembourg Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) – 16 July – Brussels European Parliament Plenary Session – 11 - 14 June – General Affairs Council (Art. 50) – 20 July – Brussels Strasbourg EU for Talanoa conference – 13 June – Brussels Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) – 24 July – Brussels G20 - Energy Transitions Ministerial Meeting – 15 June – G20 - Agriculture Ministerial Meeting – 27 - 28 July – Bariloche, Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – 18 June – Luxembourg August Adaptation Futures 2018 – 18 - 21 June – Cape Town, G20 – Resource Efficiency Workshop – 27 August – Puerto South Africa Iguazú, Argentina Ministerial Meeting on Climate Action (MOCA) – 20 - 21 G20 – 2nd Meeting of Climate Sustainability Working Group June – Brussels – 28 - 29 August – Puerto Iguazú, Argentina EEAS Climate Security Event – 22 June – Brussels September

Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) – 22 June UNFCCC Negotiating Session – 3 - 8 September – Bangkok, – Luxembourg Thailand Environment Council (ENVI) – 25 June – Luxembourg Swedish general election – 9 September – Sweden

Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) – 25 June – Luxembourg Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – 10 September – Brussels WCERE 2018 – 6th World Congress of Environmental and European Parliament Plenary Session – 10 - 13 September Resource Economists – 25 - 29 June – Gothenburg, – Strasbourg Sweden Global Climate Action Summit – 12 - 14 September – San General Affairs Council (incl. Art 50) – 26 June – Francisco, USA Luxembourg RISE Conference: Future of EU Livestock Production and European Week of bees and pollinators 2018 – Scientific Consumption – 13 September 2018 – Brussels symposium – 26 June T20 Summit – 16 - 18 September, Buenos Aires, Argentina European Council – 28 - 29 June – Brussels European mobility week – 16 - 22 September July General Affairs Council (incl. Art. 50) – 18 September - Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Brussels – 1 July Post-Growth Conference – 18 - 19 September – Brussels European Parliament Plenary Session – 2 - 5 July – Strasbourg EU Water Conference – 20 - 21 September – Vienna, 1st Global Land Degradation and Neutrality Forum – 4 - 5 Austria July – Seoul, Republic of Korea Informal meeting of Agriculture Ministers – 23 - 25 Informal Meeting of Rural Development Directors – 4 - 6 September – Schloss Hof, Austria July – Bregenz, Austria EU PV Solar Energy Conference – 24 - 28 September – Brussels IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Climate Week NYC 2018/ UN General Assembly – 24 - 30 European Parliament Plenary Session – 22 - 25 October – September – New York Strasbourg 19th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET) World Green Economy Summit 2018 – 24 - 25 October – – 26 - 28 September – Madrid, Spain Dubai, United Arab Emirates October Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health – 30 October - 1 November – WHO HQ Geneva, Switzerland Natura 2000 Event: Continental, Pannonia, Steppic and World Cities Day – 31 October Black Sea regions seminar Natura 2000 EC Event: Marine Biogeographic seminar November

Natura 2000 EC Event: Macaronesian seminar Irish Presidential Elections – Ireland

G7 Environment and Energy Ministers – October – Canada Czech Senate Elections – Czech Republic

48th IPCC Session – 1 - 5 October – Incheon, Republic of 30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol – 5 - 9 Korea November – Quito, Ecuador Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) - 2 5th EEB Annual Conference – 5 November – Brussels October – Luxembourg Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) – 6 Latvian Parliamentary Elections – 6 October – Latvia November – Brussels European Week of Regions and Cities – 8 - 11 – Brussels Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) (Trade) – 9 November

Environment Council (ENVI) – 9 October – Luxembourg General Affairs Council (GAC) – 12 November – Brussels

2018 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) – 16 Fund and World Bank Group –12 - 14 October – Bali November – Brussels Nusa Dua, Indonesia Convention on Biological Diversity COP14 – 17 - 29 Luxembourger Parliamentary Election – 14 October – November – Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt Luxembourg General Affairs Council (GAC) – 12 November – Brussels Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) – 15 October – Luxembourg European Parliament Plenary Session – 12 - 15 November Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – 15 - 16 – Strasbourg October – Luxembourg UNIDO: Circular Economy: Development of Recycling Informal EU Forest Directors General Meeting – 15 - 17 Industries – 14 - 15 November – Vienna October – Innsbruck, Austria Foreign Affairs Council – 19 November – Brussels General Affairs Council (GAC) – 16 October – Luxembourg Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – 19 - 20 World Food Day 2018 – 16 October November – Brussels DGSANTE/AT Presidency Conference: “People’s food - Madrid Forum – 17 - 18 October – Madrid, Spain people’s health: Towards healthy and sustainable Think2030 Conference – 17 - 18 October – Brussels European Food Systems” – 22 - 23 November – Vienna, Austria European Council – 18 - 19 October – Brussels Conference on Plant Protein Production in the EU – 22 - 23 12th ASEM Summit – 18 - 19 October – Brussels November – Vienna, Austria Foreign Affairs Council (Development) – 26 November – 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties Brussels to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13) – 21 - th 29 October 4 European Resources Forum – 27 - 28 November – Berlin Bioeconomy Conference – 22 October – Brussels Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Conference – World Circular Economy Forum 2018 – 22 - 24 October – 28 - 30 – Brussels Yokohama, Japan Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GGSD) Forum – 27 - 29 November – Paris IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 European Parliament Plenary Session – 28 - 29 November April 2019 – Brussels European Parliament Plenary Session – 3 - 4 April – G20 Summit – 30 Nov - 1 Dec – Buenos Aires, Argentina Brussels December 2019 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund – 12 - 14 April – G20 Summit – 30 Nov - 1 Dec – Buenos Aires, Argentina Washington DC, US UNFCCC COP24 – 3 - 14 December – Katowice, Poland Basel Convention COP14, Rotterdam Convention COP9 and Stockholm Convention COP9– 29 April - 9 May Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE European Parliament Plenary Session – 15 - 18 April – Transport) – 3 December – Brussels Strasbourg Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) – 4 December – Brussels May 2019 World Soil Day 2018 – 5 December Basel Convention COP14, Rotterdam Convention COP9 and Stockholm Convention COP9 – 29 April - 9 May 2018 EU Agricultural Outlook conference – 6 - 7 December 49th Session of the IPCC – 14 - 18 May – Brussels Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) – 10 December – Brussels 4th World Congress on Agroforestry – 20 - 25 May – Montpellier, France General Affairs Council – 11 December – Brussels European Parliament election – 23 - 26 May European Parliament Plenary Session – 10 - 13 December Tenth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM 10) – 27 May – – Strasbourg Vancouver, Canada 5th Rural Networks’ Assembly Meeting – 11 December – Brussels June 2019 European Council – 13 - 14 December – Brussels UNFCCC First sessional period – SB 50 – 17 - 28 June – Bonn, Germany Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) – 17 - 18 European Council – 21 - 22 June – Brussels December – Brussels Environment Council (ENVI) – 20 December – Brussels July 2019

January 2019 European Parliament Plenary Session – 2 - 4 July – Brussels

European Parliament Plenary Session – 14 - 17 January – High Level Political Forum – 8 - 19 July – UNHQ, New York Strasbourg European Parliament Plenary Session – 15 - 18 July – European Parliament Plenary Session – 30 - 31 January – Strasbourg Brussels European Parliament Plenary Session – 11 - 15 February – Strasbourg Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – 18 - 22 February – Rome, Lazio, Italy 4th annual Planetary Security Conference – 19 - 20 February – The Hague, The Netherlands March 2019

European Parliament Plenary Session – 11 - 14 March – Strasbourg Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly – 11 - 15 March – Nairobi, Kenya European Council – 21 - 22 March – Brussels

European Parliament Plenary Session – 25 - 28 March – Strasbourg

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 IEEP Books and Publications

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Plastic Packaging and Food Waste – new briefing for the European Parliament perspectives on a dual sustainability crisis 6 July 2018 10 April 2018

ACCESS PUBLICATION ACCESS REPORT

Brexit negotiations: Equivalence, Climate action in Land Use, Land Use Change, environmental standards and risks and Forestry in the EU Member States 8 May 2018 2 March 2018

ACCESS REPORT ACCESS PUBLICATION

Trade Liberalisation and Biodiversity

15 April 2018

ACCESS REPORT

EU Pollinator Initiative informed by EU Member States initiatives: successes and gaps 12 April 2018

ACCESS REPORT

Greening taxes and subsidies in the Pacific islands 11 April 2018

ACCESS PUBLICATION

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 IEEP Conferences and Events

Think 2030 Developing an environmental governance assessment framework Together with GLOBE EU and a coalition of Europe’s leading sustainability think tanks, IEEP launches Think IEEP is organising a DG ENV workshop on a new 2030, a new platform for European environmental environmental governance assessment framework policy. we are developing.

Find out more at www.Think2030.eu Join us September 26-27 in Brussels. More information here https://lnkd.in/ezRcHZj

IEEP Summer Newsletter 2018 Editor: Harvey Jones

Production: Mia Pantzar

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