Ecologic Institute

22 April 2009, Washington DC - Ingmar von Homeyer
In this presentation Ecologic Senior Fellow Ingmar von Homeyer provided an analytical overview of EU environmental governance from the early 1970s up to the present. He argued that EU environmental governance can be described as an amalgam of four to five environmental governance regimes which have successively been layered on top of each other over the past 35 years. Read more ...

Whilst environmental issues have steadily risen on citizens’ lists of most critical concerns facing society, have public authorities done enough to address these concerns? An EU-supported project recently got underway to look at ways in which the integration of environmental concerns into sectoral policies, such as transport, can contribute to addressing persistent environmental problems. The project funded under FP6 and coordinated by Ecologic, Environmental Policy Integration and multi-level Governance, or EPIGOV, recently held its first conference in Brussels to debate environmental policy integration. Read more ...

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive entered into force in 1985. Over its more than 20 year long existence, numerous projects in the EU Member States have been subject to the EIA procedure. To what extent the benefits of the EIA Directive outweigh its costs is largely unknown. Up to now, there has been no systematic evaluation of the costs and benefits of the EU’s EIA legislation and its implementation in the Member States. The projects aims therefore at calculating and systematically evaluating  the costs and benefits of the EIA Directive. Read more ...

There is a rapidly growing body of literature analysing and discussing measures to achieve the integration of environmental concerns into other policy areas (environmental policy integration, EPI). The project aims to structure these findings and to identify avenues for future research.

The project focuses on two main themes: Read more ...