European Neighbourhood Policy

Challenges for the Environment and Energy Policy

Publication: Policy Brief
Citation: Müller-Kraenner, Sascha 2005: The European Neighbourhood Policy - Challenges for the Environment and Energy Policy. [Ecologic Briefs]. Berlin: ecoscript.

With the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union aims to redefine the relationships between itself and the new neighbours it acquired in the EU Enlargement of 2004. Economic integration remains at the heart of the ENP, but increased co-operation in the areas of environmental and energy policy is addressed as well. This Ecologic Newsletter by Sascha Müller-Kraenner examines this important issue and also surveys questions that the EU and its new neighbours will need to address together.

Of special interest to the EU is co-operation on energy policy with the countries of Eastern Europe and North Africa. In addition to the EU, other geopolitical actors, in particular the USA and Russia, are pressing their own competing interests in the regions.

The Ecologic Brief on the European Neighbourhood Policy can be downloaded here [pdf, 101 KB, English].

Aligning Asset Management with Cause

Year 2011

Publication:Report

"Germany may well be regarded as the nation where the endgame of nuclear power began." Economics, risk assessments and public pressure lead many countries to halt nuclear power and shift to green energy. After an Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, R. Andreas Kraemer of Ecologic Institute explains in the AICGS Advisor the German decision and its impact on nuclear proliferation.

The Nuclear Power Endgame in Germany

San Francisco Chronicle and AICGS Advisor

Year 2011

Publication:Article

In this article, the online edition of IP Global, Germany's leading foreign policy magazine, Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Senior Policy Advisor of Ecologic Institute, looks at the outcomes of the COP 10 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) in Nagoya, Japan, and the reasons behind them. His analysis points to opportunities on the road ahead for the international climate negotiations beyond the UNFCCC COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of 2010.

Lessons for Cancun: Why biodiversity negotiations at Nagoya succeeded where Copenhagen failed

Year 2010

Project

Ecologic Institute cooperates on researching the "Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean". The work culminates in a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) and a book that addresses the prevention of conflicts in relation to scarcity of resources, and threats to environmental security with implications for economic, cultural and political instability. The project's main sponsor is the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS).

Environmental Security in the Arctic

Jan 2010 - Jul 2011

Publication:Article

The debate about geo-engineering is unstoppable. Strong interests push for research and experimental application. Geo-engineering is a play for time, at best, but always also a dangerous deviation from emission reduction and climate change adaptation. Properly conducted, the debate can help clarify the design of international institutions, argue R. Andreas Kraemer and Ralph Czarnecki of the Ecologic Institute in an article in Internationale Politik, Germany's leading foreign policy magazine.

Schöner Leben im Labor?

Geo-Engineering und das Recht, die Welt zu verändern

Year 2010

Project

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) seeks to create a system of graduated co-operation and association contracts. The core will be a pan-European internal market. However, the integration of other policies, most notably in the areas of security co-operation, energy and the environment, play a crucial role. Other geopolitical actors like Russia will compete with the EU on the concepts that will define the common European space of the future.

Future Direction of a Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy

Mar - May 2006

Presentation:Chairing

The current and future impact of the European Union on the sustainable development of its neighbours to the south and east and proposals for the future direction of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) were the themes of this session that took place at the 2006 Annual Conference of the European Foundation Centre (EFC). During the event an Ecologic Brief on European Neighbourhood Policy , written by Sascha Müller-Kraenner, was launched.

Democracy, Stability, Integration – A Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy?

28 May 2006
R. Andreas Kraemer

Language: English
Authorship: Sascha Müller-Kraenner
Published by: Ecologic Institute, Germany
Year: 2005
Dimension: 23 pp.
ISBN: 3-937085-15-7
ISSN: 1611-4787
Project: Future Direction of a Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy
Project ID: 101
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

Foreword

The Environment in the Neighbourhood Policy of the European Union

What is the European Neighbourhood Policy?

Medium Term Financial Planning – The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument

Ten Years after Barcelona – Does the Mediterranean matter?

The Future EU: 35 Member States or Priviliged Partnerships?

Russia – The Four Spaces

Special Cases: Ukraine, Southern Caucasus, Israel, Morocco

Neighbourhood Policy and European Security Strategy

Outlines of an Environment and Energy Partnership

Improvement of Regional and International Cooperation

Summary and Future Prospects

List of Abbreviations

Profile: Ecologic

Ecologic Dinner Dialogues on the ENP
Keywords: Foreign Policy

Neighbourhood, Enlargement, Integration, Economy, Internal Market, Foreign Policy, Security, Energy, Co-operation

Eastern Europe, North Africa, Europe

Further Links

PresentationChairingDemocracy, Stability, Integration – A Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy?

Democracy, Stability, Integration – A Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy?

Chairing:Democracy, Stability, Integration – A Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy?

Date: 28 May 2006
Location: Brussels, Belgium

ProjectFuture Direction of a Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy

Future Direction of a Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy

Duration: Mar - May 2006
Funding: Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development (BFSD), Germany

European Foundation Centre (efc), International

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