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      The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics
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      The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics

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      The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics book

      Edited ByRüdiger Wurzel, James Connelly
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 28 October 2010
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203839959
      Pages 320
      eBook ISBN 9780203839959
      Subjects Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Politics & International Relations
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      Wurzel, R., & Connelly, J. (Eds.). (2010). The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203839959

      ABSTRACT

      Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate change politics although it was originally set up as a ‘leaderless Europe’ in which decision-making powers are spread amongst EU institutional, member state and societal actors.

      The central aim of this book, which is written by leading experts in the field, is to explain what kind of leadership has been offered by EU institutional, member state and societal actors. Although leadership is the overarching theme of the book, all chapters also address ecological modernisation, policy instruments, and multi-level governance as additional main themes. The book chapters focus on the Commission, European Parliament, European Council and Council of Ministers as well as member states (Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain) and societal actors (businesses and environmental NGOs). Additional chapters analyse the EU as a global actor and the climate change policies of America and China and how they have responded to the EU’s ambitions.

      This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, EU politics, comparative politics and international relations as well as to practitioners who deal with EU and/or climate change issues.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      PART I Introduction

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Introduction: European Union political leadership in international climate change politics

      ByRÜDIGER K. W. WURZEL AND JAMES CONNELLY

      chapter 2|18 pages

      The European Union as a global environmental policy actor: Climate change

      ByJOHN VOGLER

      part |2 pages

      PART II EU institutions

      chapter 3|17 pages

      The role of the Commission of the European Union: Creating external coherence from internal diversity

      ByPAMELA M. BARNES

      chapter 4|16 pages

      The European Parliament and climate change: From symbolism to heroism and back again

      ByCHARLOTTE BURNS, NEIL CARTER

      chapter 5|19 pages

      The Council, the European Council and international climate policy: From symbolic leadership to leadership by example

      BySEBASTIAN OBERTHÜR, CLAIRE DUPONT

      part |2 pages

      PART III The EU and its Member States

      chapter 6|17 pages

      The United Kingdom: A paradoxical leader?

      ByTIM RAYNER, ANDREW JORDAN

      chapter 7|17 pages

      France’s troubled bids to climate leadership

      ByJOSEPH SZARKA

      chapter 8|18 pages

      German climate change policy: Political and economic leadership

      ByMARTIN JÄNICKE

      chapter 9|16 pages

      The Netherlands: A case of ‘cost-free leadership’

      ByDUNCAN LIEFFERINK, KATHRIN BIRKEL

      chapter 10|16 pages

      Poland’s climate change policy struggle: Greening the East?

      ByKAROLINA JANKOWSKA

      chapter 11|16 pages

      Spanish, EU and international climate change policies: Download, catch up, and curb down

      ByORIOL COSTA

      part |2 pages

      PART IV Civil society: business and environmental groups

      chapter 12|17 pages

      Business: The elephant in the room?

      ByWYN GRANT

      chapter 13|19 pages

      Environmental NGOs: Taking a lead?

      ByRÜDIGER K. W. WURZEL AND JAMES CONNELLY

      part |2 pages

      PART V Europe and the wider world

      chapter 14|17 pages

      A Green New Deal: Framing US climate leadership

      ByGURI BANG, MIRANDA A. SCHREURS

      chapter 15|17 pages

      Towards a new world order for climate change: China and the European Union’s leadership ambition

      ByXIUDIAN DAI, ZHIPING DIAO

      part |2 pages

      PART VI Conclusion

      chapter 16|20 pages

      Conclusion: The European Union’s leadership role in international climate change politics reassessed

      ByRÜDIGER K. W. WURZEL AND JAMES CONNELLY
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