The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations

ISBN-13: 9780367030155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Stavros Afionis

Opis

This book explores in detail the involvement of the European Union (EU) in international climate change negotiations from 1986 to present. While the EU’s leadership role has been largely acknowledged, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive discussion of the evolving role of the EU as a negotiator.

Recenzje

"Stavros Afionis has written a well-researched and closely argued account of EU international climate policy. Notably, it provides a corrective to the narrative of successful EU climate leadership by pointing out the missteps and failures of EU negotiators as they attempted, over two decades, to respond to the warnings issued by the scientific community. A change of approach after 2009 appears to have paid dividends in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The book is theoretically grounded in the international cooperation literature and provides a reflection on the meaning of success and failure. Students of EU policy will find it an invaluable source of reference on the evolution of the Union’s climate policy." – John Vogler, Professorial Fellow in International Relations, Keele University, UK

O autorze

Stavros Afionis is a Teaching Fellow in Environmental Politics at the School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations & Environment (SPIRE), Keele University, UK. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) of the School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, UK. His doctoral research examined the role played by the European Union in international climate change negotiations. His research interests focus on environmental politics and, in particular, international climate change negotiations and global biofuel policies. He is an associate editor for Environmental Policy and Governance and a member of the UK ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP).