Global climate protection policy: the limits of scientific advice

AbstractIn this essay the European energy and climate protection policy and its effects on developing countries are to be discussed. Are their nutrition problems being detereorated or do additional exports establish opportunities for a sustainable development? I argue that coherence of energy security and climate protection policy, as aimed by the European Commission, cannot be achieved by the measures taken so far. First of all the paper discusses the primacy of competition policy while, in the second place, strategic selectivity of climate instruments will be dealt with. Thridly, the „faith in technology“ will be approached and the fourth issue is dedicated to agrofuels and the commodification of developing countries’ ressources. As a result the EU energy and climate policy is about to aggravate nutrition problems. What is needed is a Transformation to a sustainable economy to realigning the north-south divide on the one and to overcome inconsistencies between ener gy security and climate policy on the other hand.

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Playing Fair within Climate Protection Policy? - Bringing Together Psychological and Economic Methods

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.735005 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Heidi Ittner ◽

Cornelia Ohl

Keyword(s):

Climate Protection ◽

Protection Policy ◽

Economic Methods ◽

Climate Protection Policy

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Climate Protection Policy from the Point of View of Energy Policy

Energy & Environment ◽

10.1177/0958305x9400500105 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 65-73

Author(s):

D. Boge

Keyword(s):

Co2 Emissions ◽

Point Of View ◽

Energy Price ◽

Climate Protection ◽

Protection Policy ◽

Least Action ◽

Energy Tax ◽

The Government ◽

Climate Protection Policy ◽

Direct Government

Noticeable success in reducing CO2 emissions can only be reached if the government provides the necessary framework and if a strategy of climate protection is developed with - and not against - the economy. A policy of deliberate energy price increase, geared towards the producers with possibilities of compensation, mixed with a system of direct government incentives and limited legal measures as well as self-obligation, can best achieve reductions in emissions of 25-30%. Even if this target is reached in Germany - as CO2 emissions would only temporarily fall by 1% - the global greenhouse problem would not be changed drastically. A strategy for keeping in check the anthropogenic greenhouse effect has to be designed globally. At the very least, action in the whole EC is required. The suggestion of the EC-commission to introduce an EC CO2/energy tax is to be applauded.

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The Participation of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission in the Process of Concluding International Agreements on Climate Protection

International Community Law Review ◽

10.1163/18719732-12341476 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (2-3) ◽

pp. 261-270

Author(s):

Joanna Bukowska ◽

Piotr Świat ◽

Anna Sosnowska

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

European Commission ◽

Global Climate ◽

External Action ◽

International Agreements ◽

Climate Protection ◽

The European Union ◽

Climate Protection Policy ◽

The One ◽

The Eu

Abstract For many years the European Union has aspired to be the leader of global climate protection policy. By setting increasingly ambitious challenges in its efforts against global warming, the EU has tried to encourage other countries to compete in this field at international level. In this article, the authors present the roles of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission in the process of concluding international agreements on climate protection. The division of competences between the two institutions is important in the situation when the agreements are concluded within Union’s non-exclusive competence such as the one in the field of environmental protection. In case of such agreements both the Union and its Member States are contracting parties. However, not only the division of competences is at the centre of the EU external action, but also the development of appropriate solutions that will ensure the effective achievement of climate policy objectives.

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