Ecologic Institute Newsletter

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

1. Ecologic in Cancún
2. Climate protection and law
3. Ecologic joins the Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development
4. Greenhouse Gas Reductions - Action across the Atlantic
5. Ecologic supports the Yearbook Ecology
6. Simon Marr participates in Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance

1. EUROMARKET
2. HarmoniCOP - Public Participation and the European Water Framework Directive
3. Recent developments in international treaties relating to forests 
4. Ecologic Brief "Joining Forces in the Mediterranean"
5. Liberalisation of water services in Europe: recent developments 
6. New Fellow at Ecologic: Camilla Bausch
7. Duke University Course on ''Environmental Policy in Europe"

1. Report: Mediterranean Action Plan
2. Website Ecologic Events
3. Water Management in Latin America
4. Conference on the Global Governance
5. Publication of EcoFuturum Background Study
6. Book Announcement: Treatment of a EU Directive
7. Promotions at Ecologic