EU Climate Diplomacy Politics, Law and Negotiations Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research Series

The European Union has long played a leadership role in the global response to climate change, including the development and dissemination of climate-friendly technologies such as renewable energy. EU diplomacy has been a vital contributor to the development of international cooperation on climate change through the agreement of the United Nations Climate Convention, its Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. In addition, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States means that the EU contribution to climate diplomacy will become more important still, both in filling the leadership gap (together with other major economies) and in responding to any sabotage by the Trump administration.

This book will extend knowledge of the EU as a key actor in climate diplomacy by bringing together leading practitioners and researchers in this field to take stock of the EU?s current role and emerging issues. Contributions will be grouped into three strands: 1) the interplay between EU climate diplomacy and internal EU politics; 2) how the EU?s legal order is a factor that determines, enables and constrains its climate diplomacy; and 3) the EU?s contribution to diplomacy concerning climate technology both under the Climate Convention and more broadly. Collectively, these contributions will chart the EU?s role at a critical time of transition and uncertainty in the international response to climate change.

EU Climate Diplomacy: Politics, Law and Negotiations will be of great relevance to students, scholars and policymakers with an interest in international climate politics and policy, transnational environmental law and politics and EU studies more generally.

Foreword by Ernst Stetter and Peer Zumbansen

SECTION 1: Introductory material

1. Introduction: EU climate diplomacy in a time of disruption

Stephen Minas and Vassilis Ntousas

SECTION 2: Politics

2. Party politics and EU climate policy

Robert Ladrech

3. Diplomacy, democracy and impossible ideas

Emily Barritt

4. The historical evolution of EU climate leadership and four scenarios for its future

Hayley Walker and Katja Biedenkopf

SECTION 3: Law

5. The relationship between domestic and EU policy developments: the Greek case as a paradigm on climate change and clean energy

George Dellis and Eugenia Giannini

6. The sustainable energy transition through international and EU law

Stuart Bruce

7. Toward the East: the Energy Community and the extension of EU climate governance

Stephen Minas

8. The Investment Plan for Europe: private capital and climate governance

Megan Bowman

SECTION 4: Negotiations

9. Climate technology diplomacy through the UNFCCC and beyond

Matthew Kennedy

10. Technology and the Paris Agreement: from means of implementation to climate innovation to transformation

Karsten Krause

11. Climate diplomacy and the UNFCCC institutions: the case of the Adaptation Fund

Laura Hanning Scarborough

12. The climate-energy-trade nexus in EU external relations

Rafael Leal-Arcas and Eduardo Alvarez Armas

Stephen Minas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Transnational Law, Peking University, China, and Senior Research Fellow in the Transnational Law Institute at King’s College London, UK.

Vassilis Ntousas is the International Relations Policy Advisor at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Belgium.