Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional CooperationPaul G. Harris Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 M01 1 - 415 pages This book is likely to become the definitive study on European global climate change politics. Its focus on the formulation, ratification, and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol within Europe make it essential reading for all who wish to understand how |
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... carbon sinks expert team, is a scientific assistant in energy economics at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Sebastian Oberthür is the academic director at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels. J David ...
... carbon sinks expert team, is a scientific assistant in energy economics at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Sebastian Oberthür is the academic director at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels. J David ...
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... carbon dioxide Conference of the Parties (to the FCCC) Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol Christian Social Union Directorate General (European Commission) Directorate General XI ...
... carbon dioxide Conference of the Parties (to the FCCC) Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol Christian Social Union Directorate General (European Commission) Directorate General XI ...
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... carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) and methane , while having natural sources , are also the products of human activities and industrialization . Carbon dioxide – the most influential GHG in aggregate – is created by the burning of fossil fuels ...
... carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) and methane , while having natural sources , are also the products of human activities and industrialization . Carbon dioxide – the most influential GHG in aggregate – is created by the burning of fossil fuels ...
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... carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) has increased 31 per cent since 1750. The present CO2 concentration has not been exceeded during the past 420,000 years and likely not during the past 20 million years . The current rate of increase is ...
... carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) has increased 31 per cent since 1750. The present CO2 concentration has not been exceeded during the past 420,000 years and likely not during the past 20 million years . The current rate of increase is ...
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... carbon sinks , which are processes , such as planting trees ( afforestation ) that can remove GHGs from the atmosphere ( Betsill 2005 : 113 ) . The Kyoto Protocol's likelihood of ratification was put into doubt with the advent of ...
... carbon sinks , which are processes , such as planting trees ( afforestation ) that can remove GHGs from the atmosphere ( Betsill 2005 : 113 ) . The Kyoto Protocol's likelihood of ratification was put into doubt with the advent of ...
Contents
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domestic sources of environmental foreign policy | 41 |
the United Kingdom in European climate policy | 63 |
foreign policy of the Netherlands | 87 |
5 Climatic issues in Polish foreign policy | 113 |
6 Sweden climate change and the EU context | 139 |
accommodating environmental foreign policy in a federal state | 161 |
Norwegian NGOs in the climate change negotiations | 185 |
land use domestic stakeholders and EU foreign policy | 233 |
international regimes and policy diffusion | 255 |
EU influence on Norway and Germany | 279 |
13 Climate change policy and the enlargement of the EU | 305 |
German European and international politics | 323 |
international equity and justice in European policy | 349 |
power interests and ideas in domestic and international politics | 393 |
Index | 407 |
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Page 357 - The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.
Page 8 - IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue.
Page 360 - ... the developed country Parties. 4. The developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in annex II shall also assist the developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects.
Page 357 - Noting that the largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in developed countries, that per capita emissions in developing countries are still relatively low and that the share of global emissions originating in developing countries will grow to meet their social and development needs...
Page 306 - The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States.
Page 8 - This projected rate of warming is much larger than the observed changes during the twentieth century and is "very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years.