EU Climate Change Policy

The Challenge of New Regulatory Initiatives

Marjan Peeters, Kurt Deketelaere (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2006
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84542-605-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Kurt Deketelaere, University of Leuven, Belgium

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.9.2006
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	1-84542-605-3 / 1845426053
ISBN-13	978-1-84542-605-7 / 9781845426057
Zustand	Neuware