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Greater Financial Stability for the UNEP

Date: 
21/01/2013
Excerpt: 
Reforms agreed in late December should secure the financial stability of the UN’s Environment Programme (UNEP) and could give it and the world’s environment ministers greater influence in international policymaking.
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Irish Presidency Backs EU 7th Environmental Action Plan

Date: 
09/01/2013
Excerpt: 
Ireland has unveiled its environmental priorities for its six-month presidency, which include among others an aggreement with MEPs on Europe's Seventh Environmental Action Plan (7EAP).
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From Acid Rain to Climate Change

Date: 
30/11/2012
Excerpt: 
The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was established in 1979 to control damage to ecosystems and cultural heritage from acid rain, initially in Europe. ...
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Commission Publishes New Environmental Action Programme (7th EAP) to 2020

Date: 
29/11/2012
Excerpt: 
The European Commission published its new Environmental Action Plan (7th EAP) on 29 November, 2012 which sets the EU’s policy priorities in this area until 2020.
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Environmental Policy

Date: 
24/10/2012
Excerpt: 
Although an economically oriented organization dedicated to the liberalization of trade, the European Union has nonetheless developed an extensive array of policies and institutions dedicated to protecting and preserving the Environment. This chapter explores explores the main dynamics of policy-making in the environmental sector. ...
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Environmental Policy: Governing by Multiple Policy Instruments?

Date: 
24/10/2012
Excerpt: 
This chapter sets out how the EU uses multiple policy instruments in its environmental policy. It seeks to answer questions such as, have the EU’s new modes and instruments replaced regulation, combined with it, or replaced it altogether?
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Researcher at the German Advisory Council on the Environment

Date: 
09/10/2012
Excerpt: 
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen) is inviting applications for a position as Research Assistant starting as soon as possible. The deadline for applications is 9 October, 2012.
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Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Politics

Date: 
16/09/2012
Excerpt: 
The College of Social Science and International Studies, Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter is seeking two Lecturers or Senior Lectures in Politics. The deadline for application is 16 September, 2012.

Environmental Policy in the European Union: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics

Date: 
31/08/2012
Excerpt: 
The new and comprehensively revised third edition of the well known textbook, "Environmental Policy in the European Union: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics", edited by Andrew Jordan and Camilla Adelle provides a state of the art analysis of the EU’s environmental policies. ...
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Postdoctoral Position in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling for Environmental Policy

Date: 
31/08/2012
Excerpt: 
The Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa, Canada is now hiring a postdoctoral candidate with experience working with large multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium models. ...
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