{"id":1035,"date":"2015-09-22T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T09:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sussexenergygroup\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2015-09-22T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:08:57","slug":"insights-climate-environmental-policy-evaluation-4th-european-environmental-evaluators-network-forum-florence-17-18-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sussexenergygroup\/2015\/09\/22\/insights-climate-environmental-policy-evaluation-4th-european-environmental-evaluators-network-forum-florence-17-18-september-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights on climate and environmental policy evaluation from the 4th European Environmental Evaluators Network Forum in Florence, 17-18 September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European Environmental Evaluators Network (EEEN)<\/a> kicked off over three years ago, in 2012, in an event organised by the University of Leuven and by the now director of the European Environment Agency (EEA)<\/a>, Hans Bruyninckx. Taking example of the Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN)<\/a> in North America, and endorsed by Matt Keene at the US EPA<\/a>, the idea of EEEN has focused on bringing together those who develop, carry out or with an interest in environmental policy evaluation to exchange experiences. The informal advisory group of the network is composed of members from several European countries and the US.<\/p>\n

Last week, a fourth EEEN forum was organised over the course of two days in the beautiful city of Florence in Tuscany, Italy.\u00a0 It was hosted by the European University Institute<\/a> and organised by the EEA. The theme of this year\u2019s event was Knowledge from Climate & Environment Policy Evaluation Supporting the Road from Paris to 2020.<\/p>\n

What was particularly great about the event, similarly to last year, was that it stimulated discussions between not only academics, but people working in European institutions such as the Commission, the Parliament and the EEA, in national government bodies such as the Department of Energy and Climate Change<\/a> and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<\/a> in the UK and Mistra<\/a> and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> in Sweden, the private sector including Endesa<\/a>, and academics from over a dozen universities and research institutes. The joint discussions produced many insights on various different angles related to knowledge, transitions and evaluation methods.<\/p>\n

The key insights for me were the following:
\n\u2022 There is an increasing interest in and need for evaluating public policies from a transitional and transformative perspective, but for this we need to develop new evaluation methods and criteria, and undertake evaluations from a more complex system dynamics perspective.<\/p>\n