04356oam 2200697I 450 991081973520332120200520144314.01-136-88823-31-136-88824-11-283-04370-X97866130437020-203-83995-110.4324/9780203839959 (CKB)2670000000068827(EBL)614673(OCoLC)701703708(SSID)ssj0000468948(PQKBManifestationID)12161646(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468948(PQKBWorkID)10507678(PQKB)11359633(OCoLC)701718127(MiAaPQ)EBC614673(Au-PeEL)EBL614673(CaPaEBR)ebr10446793(CaONFJC)MIL304370(PPN)198456581(EXLCZ)99267000000006882720180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe European Union as a leader in international climate change politics /edited by Rudiger K.W. Wurzel and James ConnellyMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (320 p.)Routledge / UACES contemporary European studies ;15Description based upon print version of record.0-415-64013-X 0-415-58047-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 again5 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 groups12 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; IndexClimate 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 chapterRoutledge/UACES contemporary European studies series ;15.Climatic changesGovernment policyEuropean Union countriesEnvironmental policyEuropean Union countriesClimatic changesGovernment policyEnvironmental policy363.738/74526Connelly James863654Wurzel Rudiger930408MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819735203321The European Union as a leader in international climate change politics4026572UNINA