This report provides a summary of findings by the EKLIPSE ‘Expert Working Group analysing how are European energy policies affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services in countries globally. This question was submitted by the Centre for Development and Environment University of Bern to support the scientists mandated to draft the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 (GSDR). This report aims to better understanding of the telecoupling effects of the EU’s low carbon energy policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services in countries globally, from an SDG perspective through two questions:
1. What are the SDG targets that the EU energy policy tries to pursue (also indirectly) and what are the systemic trade-offs and co-benefits that are created beyond the territorial boundaries, where, at what scale, and who are the affected winners and losers?
2. What policies and governance mechanisms could remedy these impacts; or in hindsight, how could one have chosen pathways to more sustainable development?