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EU Climate Change Policy: The Challenge of New Regulatory Initiatives
Author(s): Marjan Peeters (Editor), Kurt Deketelaere
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date: November 27, 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845426053
- ISBN-13: 9781845426057
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘EU environmental law is now a dominant source of influence in the development and application of environmental law and policy in most Member States.This important new study provides a fresh appraisal of the changing nature of EU environmental legislation, and the tensions between discretion and goals. Above all it tackles the difficult questions of the appropriate role and design of law in tackling current and future environmental challenges. It should be required reading by all those concerned with the future of environmental law, both within Europe and elsewhere, and the authors are to be congratulated on the quality and scope of their analysis.’ — Professor Richard Macrory, University College, London
‘. . . this excellent edited collection assembled by Peeters and Deketelaere on the achievements of EU climate change policy is a very timely publication. They have brought together nineteen distinguished, mostly European scholars, on climate law and policy to provide an informative account of the flurry of initiatives.’ — Benjamin J. Richardson, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
About the Author
Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Kurt Deketelaere, University of Leuven, Belgium
