EU Climate Change Policy

Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Kurt Deketelaere, University of Leuven, Belgium

'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.’

• Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Key Challenges of EU Climate Change Policy: Competences, Measures and ComplianceKurt Deketelaere and Marjan Peeters2. Climate Change: The International and European Policy FrameworkMarc Pallemaerts and Rhiannon Williams3. The European Union, Russia and the Kyoto Protocol Wybe Th. Douma PART II: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING WITHIN THE EU 4. Reviewing the Challenging Task Faced by Member States in Implementing the Emissions Trading Directive: Issues of Member State LiabilityMar Campins Eritja5. A Level Playing Field? Initial Allocation of Allowances in Member StatesBettina Schmitt-Rady6. Linking the Project Based Mechanisms with the EU ETS; the Present State of Affairs and Challenges Ahead Javier de Cendra de Larragán7. Emissions Trading and the Aarhus Convention: A Proportionate Symbiosis? Karen MacDonald and Zen Makuch8. The IPPC Permit and the Greenhouse Gas Permit Birgitte Egelund Olsen9. Enforcement of the EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading SchemeMarjan Peeters10. A Decade of Emissions Trading in the USA: Experiences and Observations for the EUGeorge (Rock) Pring11. Climate Change Taxes, Emission Trading, and International Trade LawGeert van Calster PART III: ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MEASURES 12. EU Energy Policy and Legislation under Pressure since the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol?Véronique Bruggeman and Bram Delvaux13. Energy Taxation within the EU Manfred Rosenstock14. Critical Issues in Implementing Energy Taxation Claudia Dias SoaresPART IV: GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: REFLECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES 15. Some Reflections on the EU Mix of Instruments on Climate ChangeLudwig Krämer16. Good Governance and Climate Change: Recommendations from a North–South PerspectiveJoyeeta Gupta Index