This work focuses on the impact and design of international environmental regimes which are established to preserve natural resources and to reduce environmental degradation. These regimes are addressed from both a conceptual and a theoretical standpoint and utilise empirical evidence.

Climate policy is today a significant area of EU governance, providing important framework conditions for many industries. But how has EU climate policy developed? This book offers structured, comparative case studies of the development of four central climate policies: emissions trading systems, renewables, carbon capture and storage, and energy policy for buildings, examining the intriguing similarities and differences in how these have taken shape. Combining sociological New Institutionalism and political science theories in a novel and engaging way, Elin Lerum Boasson and JA, rgen...