Contents:

1. EU Climate Policies after 2020: Robust Review and Ratcheting Up Targets – Publication
2. Developing Participatory Adaptation Plans for River Basins – Publication
3. An Introduction to RISC-KIT – Video
4. Edith Bayer (RAP) on "Efficiency First" – ELEEP Netcast
5. Soil Stakeholders' Conference – Publication
6. Delivering and Enforcing the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking – Publication
7. Germany's Energy Transition – Publication

1. EU Climate Policies after 2020: Robust Review and Ratcheting Up Targets – Publication

   The Paris Agreement states that Parties will scale up their commitments with every consecutive nationally determined contribution. A new paper by Ecologic Institute shows how EU legislation can help implement this requirement. The paper is available for download.

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2. Developing Participatory Adaptation Plans for River Basins – Publication

   This handbook by Ecologic Institute is intended to provide the reader with the necessary information how to guide the participatory development of a River Basin Adaptation Plan. The handbook begins with more general contextual information about the BeWater project before highlighting the importance of adaptation, the state of the art in river basin planning, society's role in the process and finally the need for resilient social-ecological systems. The handbook is available for download.

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3. An Introduction to RISC-KIT – Video

   This movie gives an overview of the five tools developed within the EU-funded collaborative FP7 project RISC-KIT: 1) a Storm Impact Database, 2) a Coastal Risk Assessment Framework, 3) a Web-based Management Guide, 4) a Hotspot tool and Early Warning System and 5) a Multi-Criteria Analysis Guide. These products will enhance forecasting, prediction and early warning capabilities, improve the assessment of long-term coastal risk and optimize the mix of prevention, mitigation and preparedness measures. The movie, animated by Ecologic Institute's visual designer Beáta Vargová, is available via Ecologic Institute's YouTube channel.

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4. Edith Bayer (RAP) on "Efficiency First" – ELEEP Netcast

   On 6 January 2017 ELEEP released a new netcast episode featuring a conversation with Edith Bayer (Associate, Regulatory Assistance Project) on "Efficiency First", the organizing principle that prioritizes energy efficiency and demand response investments whenever they would cost less or deliver more than building new supply or grid infrastructure.

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5. Soil Stakeholders' Conference – Publication

   On 5 December 2016, World Soil Day, an EU Soil stakeholders' Conference took place in Brussels. The conference aimed at raising awareness about the importance of soils and the ecosystem services that they deliver, and to contribute to the implementation of the EU Soil Thematic Strategy. The proceedings are available for download.

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6. Delivering and Enforcing the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking – Publication

   The EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking adopted by the European Commission on 26 February 2016 is the most recent EU initiative to tackle wildlife crime. On 8 September 2016, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament (ENVI) held a workshop in Brussels on 'Delivering and enforcing the EU Action Plan Against Wildlife Trafficking'. With support from the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), Ecologic Institute organized the workshop and compiled the proceedings for this publication. The proceedings summarize the presentations and discussions, and include the workshop agenda, the presentations slides and short biographies of the experts, as well as an executive summary. The proceedings are available for download.

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7. Germany's Energy Transition – Publication

   This book, edited by Professor Carol Hager, Ph.D. and Ecologic Institute's Associate Professor Christoph H. Stefes, Ph.D. analyzes Germany's Energiewende. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that have made the transition possible.

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