Negotiating the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Framework

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction and Context

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 1-20

3. Analytical Framework

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 21-32

4. The Problem Stream

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 33-55

5. The Policy Stream

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 57-85

6. The Politics Stream

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 87-97

7. Connecting the Streams

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 99-125

8. Conclusions and Discussion

   • Oscar Fitch-Roy, Jenny Fairbrass

   Pages 127-144

9. Back Matter

   Pages 145-171

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In 2014, European heads of state selected new targets for the EU as part of the 2030 climate and energy framework. These targets will guide the ambition and nature of EU policy in this area until 2030 and are likely to have important implications for Europe’s transition to a low-carbon economy. This book exposes the role of civil society and business interest groups in setting the policymaking agenda and defining the range of options for the framework. Based on a unique sample of 32 in-depth interviews with Brussels policy elites, this book casts EU interest representation in a new light. In a novel application of the ‘multiple streams approach’, sequential chapters present the problems faced by policymakers, the range of policy options available to address them and the political constraints within which policy entrepreneurs attempted to attached policies to problems. 

• EU 2030 climate energy framework
• climate policy
• energy policy
• 2030 EU climate and energy targets
• Clean technology
• renewables
• energy efficiency
• COP15
• socio-technical transitions
• multiple streams approach
• European Union policymaking
• emissions trading
• energy security
• climate leadership
• techno-economic modelling
• technology neutrality
• climate change management
• Environmental Geography

“Fitch-Roy and Fairbrass have written an empirically rich and well-structured book on EU climate and energy policy at a particular salient moment. They successfully apply Kingdon's multiple streams framework, but also find that the processes is not primarily characterized by a few eager policy entrepreneurs exploiting a policy window. The book nicely captures and make sense of a complex process. I recommend this book for students, scholars and practitioners interested in EU climate and energy policy.” (Elin Lerum Boasson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo)

• University of Exeter , Exeter, United Kingdom

  Oscar Fitch-Roy

• Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia Norwich Business School, Norwich, United Kingdom

  Jenny Fairbrass

Oscar W.F. Fitch-Roy is a research fellow in the University of Exeter’s Energy Policy Group, UK. 
 
Jenny Fairbrass is a senior lecturer in Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia, UK. 

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