ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between the EU's traditional energy security policies and climate security aims. In relation to both the ostensible linkages the chapter finds as many grounds for arguing that longer-standing, core EU policies - climate and energy. It reveals the implications of the well-established and mainstream areas of policy are not entirely positive for the EU's commitment to effective climate security policies. The UK minister Chris Huhne liked to argue that the 'climate security versus energy security' debate presented a false dichotomy, to the extent that climate change is likely to disrupt the supplies of oil and gas too. Connie Hedegaard has acknowledged that the ETS has not had a major impact but has refused to cede to non-governmental organisation's demands for post-2012 allowances to be revoked for some sectors. External Action Service (EAS) diplomats admit that member states' growing caution of climate change in general has infected the more specific climate security agenda.
