The European Union as a leader in international climate change politics / edited by Rudiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connelly, James.

Wurzel, Rüdiger.

Series:

Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies series ; 15.

Routledge / UACES contemporary European studies ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Climatic changes--Government policy--European Union countries.

Climatic changes.

Environmental policy--European Union countries.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 chapter

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I: Introduction; 1 Introduction: European Union political leadership in international climate change politics; 2 The European Union as a global environmental policy actor: Climate change; Part II: EU institutions; 3 The role of the Commission of the European Union: Creating external coherence from internal diversity; 4 The European Parliament and climate change: From symbolism to heroism and back again

5 The Council, the European Council and international climate policy: From symbolic leadership to leadership by examplePart III: The EU and its Member States; 6 The United Kingdom: A paradoxical leader?; 7 France's troubled bids to climate leadership; 8 German climate change policy: Political and economic leadership; 9 The Netherlands: A case of 'cost-free leadership'; 10 Poland's climate change policy struggle: Greening the East?; 11 Spanish, EU and international climate change policies: Download, catch up, and curb down; Part IV: Civil society: business and environmental groups

12 Business: The elephant in the room?13 Environmental NGOs: Taking a lead?; Part V: Europe and the wider world; 14 A Green New Deal: Framing US climate leadership; 15 Towards a new world order for climate change: China and the European Union's leadership ambition; Part VI: Conclusion; 16 Conclusion: The European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics reassessed; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-88823-3

1-136-88824-1

1-283-04370-X

9786613043702

0-203-83995-1

9780203839959

OCLC:

701703708