Ecologic Newsletter

1. Control of Land Use - Strategies, Instruments and Measures for Nature Protection - Publication
2. Vital Soil - The Next Step Towards a European Soil Strategy - Background Paper online
3. Water Framework Directive Monitoring - Policy Brief and Workshop
4. The EU-Water Framework Directive as Possible Approach for Integrated River Basin Management - Publication
5. International Comparison of Water Management - Publication
6. Job Creation Potential of Clean Technologies - Study online
7. Strategies of European Environmental Interest Groups for Influencing European Environmental Policy - Publication

1. The Impacts of Russian Ratification and American Election on the Climate Regime - Dinner Dialogue with Oran Young
2. On the Environmental Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy - Dinner Dialogue with Tony Long
3. Effects of Germany's Eco-Taxes - two Reports now online
4. Pollutant and Transfer Register (PRTR) in Germany - Report online
5. A new Dimension of Environmental Liability in Europe? An Analysis of the EU-Directive on Environmental Liability - Publication
6. Paradigm Shift in Energy Policy - Publication
7. Light at the end of the tunnel? Participation and Transparency in Export Credit Agencies' Cover Decisions - Lecture
8. Local Communities and Municipalities as Innovators for Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns - Expert Dialogue Proceedings online

1. Kyoto and Beyond: Climate Change and Transatlantic Storms - Dinner Dialogue with Lee Lane
2. Effects of the Ecological Tax Reform - Workshop
3. How to strengthen the European Strategy for Sustainable Development - Publication
4. On Top of a Melting World: the Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous People in the Arctic Region - Dinner Dialogue with John Crump 
5. Public Policies for Changing the "European Way of Life" - Lecture by R. Andreas Kraemer
6. The Dismantling of the German Federal Health Agency: A Case of (Failed) Institutional Precaution - Publication

Ecologic has something to celebrate: We enter our 10th year on 29 August 2004.

1. EC Competence in International Environmental Treaties with regards to the OSPAR Convention - Publication
2. New Directions in Global Environmental Governance - Dinner Dialogue with Maria H. Ivanova 
3. The Draft Constitution for Europe and the Environment - Publication
4. The Linking Directive - Can JI and CDM be safety valves for the European Emissions Trading System? - Climate Talk
5. Differential Effects of Enlargement on EU Environmental Governance - Publication
6. Heavily Modified Water Bodies - Synthesis of 34 Case Studies in Europe - Publication
7. JEEPL - Journal for European Enviromental & Planning Law

1. Labour Unions’ contribution to sustainable consumption and production – UNEP Report
2. We the peoples: Civil Society, the United Nations and Global Governance - Report
3. Integrated Water Resource Management for Latin America and the Caribbean
4. Agricultural Education and Fair Trade - A Path to Rural Development? - Dinner Dialogue with José Zaglul
5. New Briefing Notes for the European Parliament Environment Committee
6. Data Gathering for Emissions Trading in Germany - Publication

1. Side Event on Renewable Energies at the UN CSD-12
2. Recommendations for 2004 of European Environmental Advisory Councils to the European Council Economic
3. Instruments for Water Management - Publication of the Inter-American Development Bank
4. EURATOM and the future EU Constitution - Article in the New Scientist magazine
5. Global Warming and Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol - Dinner Dialogue with Prof. David A. Wirth
6. Peter Kessler joins Ecologic as a Senior Policy Advisor

1. Heavily Modfied Water Bodies in the Danube River Basin – Workshop summary
2. European Strategy for Soil Protection – Workshop announcement
3. Relationship between Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and WTO Rules – Seminar announcement
4. Emission Trading in Germany – Publication by Simon Marr
5. The Central Asia and Mongolia Bioresources and Biosecurity Network – Publication by Kirsten Neumann

1. Round Table on UNEP reform process
2. Ecologic and IEEP consult the European Parliament Environment Committee
3. Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns - National Dialogue after the WSSD
4. Newsletter series on the Lille IV Conference
5. The Economic Analysis according to the Water Framework Directive
6. Selecting cost-effective sets of measures for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive
7. 'Open Method of Co-ordination' in EU environmental policy
8. "Greening the Chatham House Rule" - Richard Tarasofsky moves to the RIIA in London

1. The Use of Environmental and Social Criteria in Export Credit Agencies' Practices
2. Conference "Moving forward from Cancún"
3. Institutional Interaction to Address Greehouse Gas Emissions from International Transport: ICAO, IMO and the Kyoto Protocol
4. Conference Proceedings: EU: CAP and Enlargement - an Opportunity for Nature and Environment?
5. Strategically Harvesting Environmental Lessons from Abroad
6. Democracy, Efficiency, Transparency - The European Convention's Proposals for Institutional Reform from an Environmental Perspective
7. The Division of Competencies- Reform Suggestions and Implications for the Environment