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Climate Change and European Leadership

A Sustainable Role for Europe?

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Editors:
  1. Joyeeta Gupta

    1. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Michael Grubb

    1. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, T.H. Huxley School, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 27)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. The EU and Leadership in International Climate and Environmental Regimes: Learning From Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Climate change, leadership and the EU

      • Michael Grubb, Joyeeta Gupta
      Pages 3-14

    3. Leadership

      • Michael Grubb, Joyeeta Gupta
      Pages 15-24

    4. The complicated development of EU climate policy

      • Jørgen Wettestad
      Pages 25-45

    5. The role of the EU in climate negotiations

      • Farhana Yamin
      Pages 47-66

    6. Perceptions of the EU’s role

      • Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp
      Pages 67-81

    7. The EU in international environmental regimes and the Energy Charter Treaty

      • Sebastian Oberthür
      Pages 83-105

  3. Socio-Economic Analysis of Climate Policy Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Socio-economics of policy formation and choices

      • Jean-Charles Hourcade, Pierre Courtois, Thierry Lepesant
      Pages 109-134

    3. The economics of coalition formation

      • Carlo Carraro
      Pages 135-156

    4. Issue linkages to the sustainability agenda

      • Wolfgang Jung, Reinhard Loske
      Pages 157-171

    5. Economic dimensions of the Kyoto Protocol

      • Jean-Charles Hourcade, Michael Grubb
      Pages 173-200

  4. Implementing EU Commitments on Climate Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Competence and subsidiarity

      • Agnethe Dahl
      Pages 203-220

    3. Emission reductions in EU countries

      • H. Asbjørn Aaheim, Camilla Bretteville
      Pages 221-238

    4. Implementing EU Commitments under Kyoto

      • Michael Grubb, Jean-Charles Hourcade
      Pages 239-260

  5. Global Strategies and Scenarios

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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    2. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the EU

      • Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp
      Pages 263-274

    3. Leadership scenarios

      • Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp
      Pages 275-286
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About this book

The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place. Although climate change is firmly positioned on the political agenda and some initial targets have been agreed within a global framework, we are still far away from a mature political and practical policy which may deliver timely and appropriate results .to tum the tide. This is partly due to the complex nature of a possible global climate change regime, the still early stage of the development of effective and efficient instruments and the wide variety of possible ramifications for individual countries and economic sectors. But it is also due to the complexity of the negotiation process, and the lack of effective international or even global governance and leadership to tackle a multi-dimensional problem of this size and nature. This book is the first broad attempt to address the issue of leadership by one of the major parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in the ongoing international debate and negotiations towards such a policy which inevitably has to be constructed on a global scale.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joyeeta Gupta

  • Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, T.H. Huxley School, London, UK

    Michael Grubb

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate Change and European Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: A Sustainable Role for Europe?

  • Editors: Joyeeta Gupta, Michael Grubb

  • Series Title: Environment & Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1049-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6466-5Published: 31 July 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5524-8Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1049-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1383-5130

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0110

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 346

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Political Science, Climate Change

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