Residual emissions from agriculture: Analysis of emission reduction scenarios - IEEP AISBL The report examines emission reductions in EU agriculture by reviewing a selection of modelling scenarios and assessing variations in residual emissions.

#Farming feeds us, but it also fuels emissions. To reach the EU's 2050 #ClimateNeutrality goal agriculture must transform 🐄

Read our latest report to find out how ⬇️

Strengthening environmental ambition in the proposal for the CAP 2028–2034  - IEEP AISBL This briefing evaluates whether the Commission’s proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2028–2034 are fit to drive the scale of environmental and climate action Europe now needs. Despite some positive steps, the proposed framework could ultimately undermine environmental ambition if key weaknesses in funding, governance and performance monitoring remain unresolved.  

Can @ec.europa.eu proposals for the #CommonAgriculturalPolicy for 2028–2034 drive environmental and climate actions?

This briefing examines 3️⃣ key issues that will determine if the next CAP accelerates or hinders progress toward the EU's climate, biodiversity, soil and water objectives ⬇️

Protein diversification: Closing the economic confidence gap - IEEP AISBL This report examines how Europe's legume supply chains can be organised and governed to enable farmers to diversify into food-grade legume production in an economically viable and resilient manner.

🫛 Legume production can help diversify protein sources.

However, structural weaknesses across the supply chain are limiting the current production of food-grade legumes. Our report examines how supply-chain interventions can reduce financial risk and improve income stability ⤵️

Celebrating 50 years of IEEP with Janez Potočnik - IEEP AISBL This month, Janez Potočnik reflects on his time as a former Commissioner over 20 years ago, recalling how IEEP and his team stood alongside him to defend nature and shares his vision for a less wasteful and fair energy transition.

#50YearsOfIEEP

Ahead of the #Think2030 Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair at @unep.org International Resource Panel, reflects on his time as a former Commissioner, recalling how IEEP supported to defend nature and shares his vision for a less wasteful and fair #EnergyTransition 👇

Divergence or cooperation – tackling deforestation from an EU and UK perspective - IEEP AISBL AUTHORS: Nora Hiller (IEEP), Ed Worsdell and Clara Vullo (IEEP UK) The UK’s proposed Forest Risk Commodity (FRC) regulation and the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) are frameworks for tackling global deforestation. With the UK’s regulation still under development, and the EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, the chance remains for alignment –...

🪵 With the UK's Forest Risk Commodity regulation still under development, and the #EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, the chance remains for alignment – or for divergence.

Read more in this blog with @ieep-uk.bsky.social for an overview of the ongoing political developments ⤵️

🔔 The #Think2030 conference is only a week away, and we are excited to announce our speakers for the high-level discussion.

With @cy2026eu.bsky.social @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @wwf.eu @philea.bsky.social and many others 🤝

#50YearsOfIEEP

ℹ️ ieep.eu/news/50-year...

Improving air quality with residential heating policies - IEEP AISBL This compendium presents measures adopted by European municipalities to make urban heating systems more sustainable and to improve air quality, including examples inspired by or resembling the Low Emissions Zones (LEZs) for vehicles already in force in many European cities.

🤝 Guidance on socially acceptable clean heating measures is essential.

Our newest compendium maps actions undertaken by municipalities across Europe to improve air quality, while highlighting potential societal challenges 🏠

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A deep dive into animal protection in Thailand - IEEP AISBL This report explores the options for improving animal welfare and sustainability in the context of an EU-Thailand free trade agreement, for which negotiations were relaunched in 2023.

With the EU and #Thailand relaunching negotiations for a #FreeTradeAgreement, animal welfare must be part of the conversation 🗣️

Read our report on animal protection in Thailand for @eurogroupforanimals.org to understand why 👇

European protein diversification: Growing opportunities for farmers - IEEP AISBL Europe’s agricultural sector is facing unprecedented challenges, from global food crises to the pressure of transitioning towards a more sustainable and healthy food system. This report explores how European farmers, along with the wider food industry, scientists, and policymakers, can turn these challenges into new opportunities by diversifying protein sources within the European food system.

🌱 Protein diversification can address key EU priorities, such as #ClimateTargets, environmental concerns, planetary resources, health, and #AnimalWelfare. However, their socio-economic impacts on farmers remain largely under-investigated.

Find out more 👇

BEEHive | CircHive The BEEHive Portal is where you can join hubs, get the latest news, and upload your own content.

Join BEEHive, a new online space for exchanging knowledge, resources and ideas on #biodiversity footprinting and natural capital accounting 🐝

BEEHive is open to any organisation or individual interested in learning how to measure and manage their impacts on nature ⤵️

Protein diversification: Closing the economic confidence gap - IEEP AISBL This report examines how Europe's legume supply chains can be organised and governed to enable farmers to diversify into food-grade legume production in an economically viable and resilient manner.

🫛 Legume production can help diversify protein sources. However, structural weaknesses across the supply chain are limiting the current production of food-grade legumes.

Our report examines how supply-chain interventions can reduce financial risk and improve income stability ⤵️

Financing the transition to sustainable agriculture: the case for improved coordination and alignment - IEEP AISBL The transition to sustainable agriculture is supported by a growing mix of public and private finance, but current efforts remain fragmented and poorly aligned. This research briefing argues that better coordination of finance is essential to address farmers’ transition barriers more effectively, to enable landscape-level biodiversity, water and climate benefits, and to unlock larger volumes of private investment.

💶 Better coordination of finance is essential to address farmers' transition barriers more effectively, to enable landscape-level biodiversity, water and climate benefits, and to unlock larger volumes of private investment.

Read our briefing 👇

WEBINAR | Low Emission Zones in the heating sector: a tale of EU cities - IEEP AISBL On 9 April, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), in partnership with the Clean Air Fund, will explore the social aspects of designing and implementing Low Emission Zones (LEZs) and heating policies across Europe.

🗣️ Join us tomorrow as we will explore the social aspects of designing and implementing Low Emission Zones #LEZ and heating policies across Europe in partnership with @cleanairfund.bsky.social 👇

Divergence or cooperation – tackling deforestation from an EU and UK perspective - IEEP AISBL AUTHORS: Nora Hiller (IEEP), Ed Worsdell and Clara Vullo (IEEP UK) The UK’s proposed Forest Risk Commodity (FRC) regulation and the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) are frameworks for tackling global deforestation. With the UK’s regulation still under development, and the EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, the chance remains for alignment –...

🧐Is the #EUDR still a flagship model for the UK's proposed Forest Risk Commodity?

With the UK's regulation still under development, and the EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, this blog looks at the ongoing political developments.

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Improving air quality with residential heating policies - IEEP AISBL This compendium presents measures adopted by European municipalities to make urban heating systems more sustainable and to improve air quality, including examples inspired by or resembling the Low Emissions Zones (LEZs) for vehicles already in force in many European cities.

🏡 How do cities improve air quality with residential heating policies?

Our compendium presents measures adopted by 20+ European cities to make urban heating systems more sustainable and improve air quality.

Read more ⤵️

50 Years of the Institute for European Environmental Policy - IEEP AISBL Think2030 Conference under the Cyprus Presidency REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING This is a decisive decade for the European Union marked by geopolitical instability, accelerating climate impacts, and growing competitiveness and resilience concerns. In this challenging context, the question of how to sustain and strengthen EU environmental leadership has never been more pressing. How can...

IEEP turns 50 🎉

To celebrate this milestone, we are organising the #Think2030 conference on 21 April fin Brussels under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency @cy2026eu.bsky.social ⬇️

#50yearsofIEEP

Shaping global green leadership - IEEP AISBL This report aims to foster a European-level reflection on the coherence between the European Union’s internal and external policies, with a particular focus on the spillover effects of EU trade-related sustainability policies.

🌍 The EU should consider #EUGreenDeal impacts on the vulnerable.

📝 Learn more about the spillovers of the EU green regulations on third countries, with a focus on the African continent 👇

Improving air quality with residential heating policies - IEEP AISBL This compendium presents measures adopted by European municipalities to make urban heating systems more sustainable and to improve air quality, including examples inspired by or resembling the Low Emissions Zones (LEZs) for vehicles already in force in many European cities.

From 2005 to 2023, premature deaths caused by exposure to PM2.5 above @who.int guideline levels fell by 57% in the EU.

This compendium presents measures of 20+ European municipalities to make urban heating systems more sustainable and improve air quality.

Read more ⤵️

Protein diversification: Closing the economic confidence gap - IEEP AISBL This report examines how Europe's legume supply chains can be organised and governed to enable farmers to diversify into food-grade legume production in an economically viable and resilient manner.

👨‍🌾 European farmers willing to diversify into food-grade legumes face a supply chain that was not built for them.

This report examines how Europe's legume supply chains can be organised and governed to enable farmers to diversify production in an economically viable and resilient manner 👇

Divergence or cooperation – tackling deforestation from an EU and UK perspective - IEEP AISBL AUTHORS: Nora Hiller (IEEP), Ed Worsdell and Clara Vullo (IEEP UK) The UK’s proposed Forest Risk Commodity (FRC) regulation and the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) are frameworks for tackling global deforestation. With the UK’s regulation still under development, and the EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, the chance remains for alignment –...

🪵 With the UK's Forest Risk Commodity regulation still under development, and the #EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, the chance remains for alignment – or for divergence.

Read this blog for an overview of the ongoing political developments ⤵️

Written with @ieep-uk.bsky.social

50 years of IEEP: Travelling the long road to greener European agricultural policies - IEEP AISBL It was in the early 1980s that getting to grips with the far-reaching environmental footprint of agriculture and rural land use in Europe became a priority for IEEP. It made us pioneers in the crucial, but sometimes tortuous, journey towards greener agricultural policies, working especially at the EU level. Here, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP),...

🌾 It was in the early 1980s that getting to grips with the far-reaching environmental footprint of agriculture and rural land use in Europe became a priority for IEEP.

Read this blog by agri institutions David Baldock and Kaley Hart 👇

Protein diversification: Closing the economic confidence gap - IEEP AISBL This report examines how Europe's legume supply chains can be organised and governed to enable farmers to diversify into food-grade legume production in an economically viable and resilient manner.

🫛 Legume production can help diversify protein sources. However, structural weaknesses across the supply chain are limiting the current production of food-grade legumes.

Our report examines how supply-chain interventions can reduce financial risk and improve income stability ⤵️

📅 Join us at the Agri-Food Public Affairs Summit on 23 April in Brussels.

We look forward to talking about resilience and agri-food policy with key EU public affairs professionals and policymakers 🤝

Check the programme 👇
www.agri-food-public-affairs-summit.eu

WEBINAR | Low Emission Zones in the heating sector: a tale of EU cities - IEEP AISBL On 9 April, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), in partnership with the Clean Air Fund, will explore the social aspects of designing and implementing Low Emission Zones (LEZs) and heating policies across Europe.

🗣️ On 9 April we will explore the social aspects of designing and implementing Low Emission Zones #LEZ and heating policies across Europe in partnership with @cleanairfund.bsky.social 👇

Addressing food waste in the retail sector - IEEP AISBL One of the biggest inefficiencies of the agri-food chain is food waste, a fast-growing phenomenon whose very existence seriously challenges planetary boundaries. One-third of all globally produced foo...

🏪 Businesses and retailers can:
🔸 Set targets tied to SDG 12.3/Waste Directive—fix overstocking, forecasting errors, "one-third shelf life."
🔸Innovate circularity: dynamic pricing, donations, digital tracking for efficiency

Read more in our brief⤵️
ieep.eu/publications...

🏛️ Governments can:
🔹 Fully implement and enforce the now-binding revised Waste Framework
🔹 Directive (per capita cut in retail/consumption by 2030 vs. 2021-23 baseline).
🔹Reinforce public-private partnerships like the EU Food Loss Prevention Hub

#ZeroWasteDay 🚮 Every year, 58 million tonnes of food waste are disposed of in the EU (130kg/citizen).

Globally, around a third of all food produced is wasted. But food waste can be curbed.

See how governments and retailers can help 🧵⬇️

Divergence or cooperation – tackling deforestation from an EU and UK perspective - IEEP AISBL AUTHORS: Nora Hiller (IEEP), Ed Worsdell and Clara Vullo (IEEP UK) The UK’s proposed Forest Risk Commodity (FRC) regulation and the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) are frameworks for tackling global deforestation. With the UK’s regulation still under development, and the EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, the chance remains for alignment –...

🧐Is the #EUDR still a flagship model for the UK's proposed Forest Risk Commodity?
With the UK's regulation still under development, and the EUDR subject to repeated delays and simplification, this blog looks at the ongoing political developments.

More ⤵️

Nature-based Solutions for urban and regional water resilience: What to do with too much (dirty) water - IEEP AISBL The brief draws from research, policy, and good practice from the wider NbS community, and presents recommendations to enhance the integration of NbS. The contents were co-created through a science policy event in February 2025.

🌧️ Rain gardens, living walls, green roofs, constructed wetlands, and river restoration pilots are already being used across Europe to support water treatment and management.

Read the #NetworkNature brief to find out more about these #NatureBasedSolutions ⬇️

WEBINAR | Low Emission Zones in the heating sector: a tale of EU cities - IEEP AISBL On 9 April, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), in partnership with the Clean Air Fund, will explore the social aspects of designing and implementing Low Emission Zones (LEZs) and heating policies across Europe.

💡 Did you know that Sofia is the first EU city to introduce a residential heating #LowEmissionZone?

📅 Join our webinar with @cleanairfund.bsky.social on 9 April to find out more 👇