Governance
• Environmental impact assessment (EIA) (Directives 85/337/EEC and 97/11/EC)
• UNECE Espoo Convention and transboundary impacts
• Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) (Directive 2001/42/EC), UNCEC SEA protocol
• Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC)
• Birds and Habitats Directives (Directives 2009/147/EC and 92/43/EEC)
• The assessment and management of flood risks (Directive 2007/60/EC)
• Public Participation Directive (2003/35/EC) and the Aarhus Convention
CEP works across a wide range of environmental and sustainability policy areas with experience in UK
and international environmental legislation and policy development. We provide expert advice to
governments, agencies, NGOs and private sector clients. We have developed a particular strength in
the analysis of long-term futures thinking, including the use of scenario studies, and in strategy-making
in the broad field of sustainability.
We have extensive experience in relation to law, policy, procedures, implementation and application of
the key EU environmental directives such as:
Key policy areas we focus on include:
Supporting institutions
to develop
environmental and
sustainability policies
and strategies
• The use of scenarios and foresight studies, especially at the European and pan-European scale
• Governance and institutional arrangements for futures thinking
• EU regional funding and territorial cohesion
• SEA and sustainability assessment law and policy;
• Ecosystem services and green infrastructure
• Sectoral interests in water, transport, energy, coastal management, biodiversity and agriculture
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