Climatic change and European leadership : a sustainable role for Europe?
Provides an analysis of European efforts to implement and secure global action on climate change, and how this relates to wider questions about the role of European and global sustainability. This book also looks at the underlying theoretical disputes that led to a wide range of divergent standpoints within the EU.
Environment & policy, vol. 27
9780792364665, 079236466X
1101260691
I The EU and Leadership in International Climate and Environmental Regimes: Learning from Experience.- 1. Climate change, leadership and the EU.- 2. Leadership.- 3. The complicated development of EU climate policy.- 4. The role of the EU in climate negotiations.- 5. Perceptions of the EU’s role.- 6. The EU in international environmental regimes and the Energy Charter Treaty.- II Socio-Economic Analysis of Climate Policy Strategies.- 7. Socio-economics of policy formation and choices.- 8. The economics of coalition formation.- 9. Issue linkages to the sustainability agenda.- 10. Economic dimensions of the Kyoto Protocol.- III Implementing EU Commitments on Climate Change.- 11. Competence and subsidiarity.- 12. Emission reductions in EU countries.- 13. Implementing EU Commitments under Kyoto.- IV Global Strategies and Scenarios.- 14. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the EU.- 15. Leadership scenarios.- 16. Implementing European leadership.- References.- Annex I: Target differentiation and the ‘European Bubble’.