AUTHORS: David Baldock, Michael Nicholson.

With elections due in the UK and the EU within the next year, this IEEP UK discussion paper explores why a more cooperative and considered strategy is needed with regard to the environment and climate and those areas where it would be most beneficial or more readily achievable.

The report covers the following themes: management of shared resources; cooperation over energy supply and connectivity; regulatory convergence on the environment; harmonised and higher product standards; UK participation in technical and specialist European agencies; international cooperation and leadership; engagement and exchange with the EU; ending by posing the question why the EU would want closer collaboration.