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The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics
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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
chapter 2|18 pages
The European Union as a global environmental policy actor: Climate change
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
chapter 4|16 pages
The European Parliament and climate change: From symbolism to heroism and back again
chapter 5|19 pages
The Council, the European Council and international climate policy: From symbolic leadership to leadership by example
part |2 pages
PART III The EU and its Member States
chapter 9|16 pages
The Netherlands: A case of ‘cost-free leadership’
chapter 11|16 pages
Spanish, EU and international climate change policies: Download, catch up, and curb down
part |2 pages
PART IV Civil society: business and environmental groups
part |2 pages
PART V Europe and the wider world
chapter 15|17 pages
Towards a new world order for climate change: China and the European Union’s leadership ambition
part |2 pages
PART VI Conclusion