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EU Climate Change Policy
The Challenge of New Regulatory Initiatives
9781845426057 Edward Elgar Publishing
EU Climate Change Policy focuses on legal instruments, with emissions trading at the forefront of the policy package, accompanied by directives on energy taxation, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Distinguished authors provide a commentary on each aspect of the policy measures, discussing both theoretical and practical aspects. Overall, it is concluded that whilst EU policy is very ‘green’, it needs to be developed further in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
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This book explores the current policy measures adopted by the EU in order to realize its Kyoto Protocol commitment and to prepare for further emission reductions after 2012.
EU Climate Change Policy focuses on legal instruments, with emissions trading at the forefront of the policy package, accompanied by directives on energy taxation, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Distinguished authors provide a commentary on each aspect of the policy measures, discussing both theoretical and practical aspects. Overall, it is concluded that whilst EU policy is very ‘green’, it needs to be developed further in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
With discussions on the current state of affairs of EU climate change policy, and on the issues that may shape its future agenda, this book will be of great interest to academics, civil servants, students and stakeholders.
EU Climate Change Policy focuses on legal instruments, with emissions trading at the forefront of the policy package, accompanied by directives on energy taxation, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Distinguished authors provide a commentary on each aspect of the policy measures, discussing both theoretical and practical aspects. Overall, it is concluded that whilst EU policy is very ‘green’, it needs to be developed further in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
With discussions on the current state of affairs of EU climate change policy, and on the issues that may shape its future agenda, this book will be of great interest to academics, civil servants, students and stakeholders.
Critical Acclaim
‘EU environmental law is now a dominant source of influence in the development and application of environmental law and policy in most Member States.This important new study provides a fresh appraisal of the changing nature of EU environmental legislation, and the tensions between discretion and goals. Above all it tackles the difficult questions of the appropriate role and design of law in tackling current and future environmental challenges. It should be required reading by all those concerned with the future of environmental law, both within Europe and elsewhere, and the authors are to be congratulated on the quality and scope of their analysis.
– Professor Richard Macrory, University College, London
‘. . . this excellent edited collection assembled by Peeters and Deketelaere on the achievements of EU climate change policy is a very timely publication. They have brought together nineteen distinguished, mostly European scholars, on climate law and policy to provide an informative account of the flurry of initiatives.’
– Benjamin J. Richardson, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
– Professor Richard Macrory, University College, London
‘. . . this excellent edited collection assembled by Peeters and Deketelaere on the achievements of EU climate change policy is a very timely publication. They have brought together nineteen distinguished, mostly European scholars, on climate law and policy to provide an informative account of the flurry of initiatives.’
– Benjamin J. Richardson, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
Contributors
Contributors: V. Bruggeman, J. de Cendra de Larragán, K. Deketelaere, B. Delvaux, C. Dias Soares, W.T. Douma, M.C. Eritja, J. Gupta, L. Krämer, K. MacDonald, Z. Makuch, B.E. Olsen, M. Pallemaerts, M. Peeters, G. Pring, M. Rosenstock, B. Schmitt-Rady, G. van Calster, R. Williams
Contents
Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Key Challenges of EU Climate Change Policy: Competences, Measures and Compliance
Kurt Deketelaere and Marjan Peeters
2. Climate Change: The International and European Policy Framework
Marc Pallemaerts and Rhiannon Williams
3. The European Union, Russia and the Kyoto Protocol
Wybe Th. Douma
PART II: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING WITHIN THE EU
4. Reviewing the Challenging Task Faced by Member States in Implementing the Emissions Trading Directive: Issues of Member State Liability
Mar Campins Eritja
5. A Level Playing Field? Initial Allocation of Allowances in Member States
Bettina Schmitt-Rady
6. Linking the Project Based Mechanisms with the EU ETS; the Present State of Affairs and Challenges Ahead
Javier de Cendra de Larragán
7. Emissions Trading and the Aarhus Convention: A Proportionate Symbiosis?
Karen MacDonald and Zen Makuch
8. The IPPC Permit and the Greenhouse Gas Permit
Birgitte Egelund Olsen
9. Enforcement of the EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme
Marjan Peeters
10. A Decade of Emissions Trading in the USA: Experiences and Observations for the EU
George (Rock) Pring
11. Climate Change Taxes, Emission Trading, and International Trade Law
Geert van Calster
PART III: ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MEASURES
12. EU Energy Policy and Legislation under Pressure since the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol?
Véronique Bruggeman and Bram Delvaux
13. Energy Taxation within the EU
Manfred Rosenstock
14. Critical Issues in Implementing Energy Taxation
Claudia Dias Soares
PART IV: GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: REFLECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
15. Some Reflections on the EU Mix of Instruments on Climate Change
Ludwig Krämer
16. Good Governance and Climate Change: Recommendations from a North–South Perspective
Joyeeta Gupta
Index
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Key Challenges of EU Climate Change Policy: Competences, Measures and Compliance
Kurt Deketelaere and Marjan Peeters
2. Climate Change: The International and European Policy Framework
Marc Pallemaerts and Rhiannon Williams
3. The European Union, Russia and the Kyoto Protocol
Wybe Th. Douma
PART II: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING WITHIN THE EU
4. Reviewing the Challenging Task Faced by Member States in Implementing the Emissions Trading Directive: Issues of Member State Liability
Mar Campins Eritja
5. A Level Playing Field? Initial Allocation of Allowances in Member States
Bettina Schmitt-Rady
6. Linking the Project Based Mechanisms with the EU ETS; the Present State of Affairs and Challenges Ahead
Javier de Cendra de Larragán
7. Emissions Trading and the Aarhus Convention: A Proportionate Symbiosis?
Karen MacDonald and Zen Makuch
8. The IPPC Permit and the Greenhouse Gas Permit
Birgitte Egelund Olsen
9. Enforcement of the EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme
Marjan Peeters
10. A Decade of Emissions Trading in the USA: Experiences and Observations for the EU
George (Rock) Pring
11. Climate Change Taxes, Emission Trading, and International Trade Law
Geert van Calster
PART III: ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MEASURES
12. EU Energy Policy and Legislation under Pressure since the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol?
Véronique Bruggeman and Bram Delvaux
13. Energy Taxation within the EU
Manfred Rosenstock
14. Critical Issues in Implementing Energy Taxation
Claudia Dias Soares
PART IV: GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: REFLECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
15. Some Reflections on the EU Mix of Instruments on Climate Change
Ludwig Krämer
16. Good Governance and Climate Change: Recommendations from a North–South Perspective
Joyeeta Gupta
Index
