At the 2007 meeting of the environment ministers of the G8+5 in Potsdam, Germany, the European Commission launched The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study. Its aim is to assess the economic repercussions of global biodiversity loss. TEEB has reinforced the need for the...

This Monitoring report on the implementation of FP6 during the year 2006 represents a unique endeavour, as it is bridging from the traditional approach to monitoring in FP6 (and previous Framework Programmes) to the new requirements for monitoring in FP7.

This first FP7 Monitoring Report covers the year 2007 and is the first one based on a completely new approach: While in FP6 and previous Framework Programmes monitoring had been implemented through annual panels of independent experts which selected specific areas of FP implementation and...