LEADER 04356oam 2200697I 450 001 9910819735203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-88823-3 010 $a1-136-88824-1 010 $a1-283-04370-X 010 $a9786613043702 010 $a0-203-83995-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203839959 035 $a(CKB)2670000000068827 035 $a(EBL)614673 035 $a(OCoLC)701703708 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468948 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12161646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468948 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507678 035 $a(PQKB)11359633 035 $a(OCoLC)701718127 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC614673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL614673 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10446793 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL304370 035 $a(PPN)198456581 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000068827 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe European Union as a leader in international climate change politics /$fedited by Rudiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly 210 1$aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge / UACES contemporary European studies ;$v15 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-64013-X 311 $a0-415-58047-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $a5 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 327 $a12 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 330 $aClimate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate change politics although it was originally set up as a 'leaderless Europe' in which decision-making powers are spread amongst EU institutional, member state and societal actors. The central aim of this book, which is written by leading experts in the field, is to explain what kind of leadership has been offered by EU institutional, member state and societal actors. Although leadership is the overarching theme of the book, all chapter 410 0$aRoutledge/UACES contemporary European studies series ;$v15. 606 $aClimatic changes$xGovernment policy$zEuropean Union countries 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zEuropean Union countries 615 0$aClimatic changes$xGovernment policy 615 0$aEnvironmental policy 676 $a363.738/74526 701 $aConnelly$b James$0863654 701 $aWurzel$b Rudiger$0930408 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819735203321 996 $aThe European Union as a leader in international climate change politics$94026572 997 $aUNINA