Nov 2023 – A report PS4SD made for WWF Europe on two aspects of the 2021 revision of the European Commission’s Impact Assessment (IA) guidelines and tools shows some reason for concern. The consistency with EU Climate Law and the do-no-significant-harm principle was found not to be well implemented. In 11 out of the 20 reviewed IAs, the overview on relevant SDGs was missing in the Annexes of the respective IA reports.
Impact Assessment
Countries integrate sustainability in their impact assessments
Sept 2023 – A peer learning project with 22 EU countries from 2021-23 motivated and supported SDG and RIA experts to work together and create new guidelines. The results are now published on our project page
Governance contexts and Strategic Environmental Assessment
Louis co-authored a research article in Environmental Impact Assessment Review on the relationship between governance contexts and the development and outcomes of Strategic Environmental Assessment...
Lecturing in Lille (2017-18)
[Oct 2017] Ingeborg teaches a master course on EU food policy at the Catholic University of Lille, starting in October 2017. A number of "Food Controversies" are discussed with guest lecturers from...
SDGs and RIA in Georgia (July-Nov 2017)
[July 2017] Ingeborg Niestroy has worked at a project of the GIZ in Georgia on integrating Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals in Regulatory Impact Assessment. She conducted workshops...
Role of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies to Foster the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015)
Ingeborg was the rapporteur of the Expert Group to the European Commission on "Follow-up to Rio+20, notably the SDGs". Their report was published in November 2015. 2015 Role of STI for SDSGs -...