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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... Explaining European responses to global climate change : power , interests and ideas in domestic and international politics Paul G Harris Index 393 407 List of figures 1.1 Typology of environmental foreign policy 19 vi Contents.
... Explaining European responses to global climate change : power , interests and ideas in domestic and international politics Paul G Harris Index 393 407 List of figures 1.1 Typology of environmental foreign policy 19 vi Contents.
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... interests will be , and it will have little choice but to respond with aid . For these and other reasons , it is important for us to understand as best as we can Europe's responses to global climate change . By better understanding ...
... interests will be , and it will have little choice but to respond with aid . For these and other reasons , it is important for us to understand as best as we can Europe's responses to global climate change . By better understanding ...
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... interests and ideals. That is, they are buffeted by both domestic and international forces. They are part of EFP. Thus, looking at purely local or international variables seldom explains environmental policy within and among countries ...
... interests and ideals. That is, they are buffeted by both domestic and international forces. They are part of EFP. Thus, looking at purely local or international variables seldom explains environmental policy within and among countries ...
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... interests are– or what a regional organiza- tion's environmental interests are – or ought to be, particularly with regard to complex environmental issues, and it is almost always debatable how best to promote them (Webber and Smith 2002 ...
... interests are– or what a regional organiza- tion's environmental interests are – or ought to be, particularly with regard to complex environmental issues, and it is almost always debatable how best to promote them (Webber and Smith 2002 ...
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... interests given to the state by systemic factors ( e.g. , regional or global configurations of power , hegemonic ideas ) . They direct our attention to the structural characteristics of international relations , showing that states may ...
... interests given to the state by systemic factors ( e.g. , regional or global configurations of power , hegemonic ideas ) . They direct our attention to the structural characteristics of international relations , showing that states may ...
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.