The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics

By: James Connelly (Editor), Rudiger Wurzel (Editor)

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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.

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'The clear and thorough analysis of the different facets of internal and external EU climate policy by leading scholars provides a much needed insight into the still unexplored domain of climate diplomacy.' - Anatole Boute, Climate Law 2 (2011), 139

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List of figures, tables and boxes	p. xii
List of contributors	p. xiii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xvii
List of abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction: European Union political leadership in international climate change politics	p. 3
The European Union as a global environmental policy actor: climate change	p. 21
EU institutions	p. 39
The role of the Commission of the European Union: creating external coherence from internal diversity	p. 41
The European Parliament and climate change: from symbolism to heroism and back again	p. 58
The Council, the European Council and international climate policy: from symbolic leadership to leadership by example	p. 74
The EU and its Member States	p. 93
The United Kingdom: a paradoxical leader?	p. 95
France's troubled bids to climate leadership	p. 112
German climate change policy: political and economic leadership	p. 129
The Netherlands: a case of 'cost-free leadership'	p. 147
Poland's climate change policy struggle: greening the East?	p. 163
Spanish, EU and international climate change policies: download, catch up, and curb down	p. 179
Civil society: business and environmental groups	p. 194
Business: the elephant in the room?	p. 197
Environmental NGOs: taking a lead?	p. 214
Europe and the wider world	p. 233
A Green New Deal: framing US climate leadership	p. 235
Towards a new world order for climate change: China and the European Union's leadership ambition	p. 252
Conclusion
Conclusion: the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics reassessed	p. 271
Index	p. 291
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