The EU: towards adequate, coherent and coordinated climate action?

Rayner, Tim, Szulecki, Kacper, Jordan, Andrew J. and Oberthür, Sebastian (2023) The EU: towards adequate, coherent and coordinated climate action? In: Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 384-401. ISBN 9781789906974

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Abstract

This chapter takes stock of what we have learned from the contributions gathered in this Handbook and reflects on the EU’s ability to deliver on increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. After summarizing key messages of each chapter, the chapter brings out a number of cross-cutting themes, related to key on-going challenges facing effective EU climate policy. These include the need to raise and appropriately direct significant new finance, the need for democratic but also decisive decision making, the power of ‘incumbents’, the adequacy of relying on technological fixes for emission reduction, and the geopolitical dimension. We end with an assessment of the prospects for EU climate policy and politics as the 2020s develop, in particular the extent to which crises can be managed to allow a continued or even enhanced focus on climate change. We highlight growing impacts from extreme events as one on-going crisis that will need a more concerted response.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability
Related URLs:	https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/97...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2023 12:30
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2023 23:34
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92629
DOI:	10.4337/9781789906981.00042

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