The European Union has styled itself a global leader in climate action. In so doing, it presents itself as responding to science and public concern and its historic responsibilities. In terms of its means of response, the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) has been the primary instrument. A rational response to liberal economic theory, the EU ETS is often trumpeted as a cost-effective success story internally and as a model to be adopted externally. This optimistic narrative is challenged herein.
Published Online: 2013-01-01
Published in Print: 2013-01
© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Mitigation, Adaptation or Climate Engineering?
- The Montreal Protocol Protection of Ozone and Climate
- Two Stories About E.U. Climate Change Law and Policy
- Orchestrating a Low-Carbon Energy Revolution Without Nuclear: Germany’s Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
- Transformations in Brazilian Deforestation and Climate Policy Since 2005
- An Analytical Comparison of Various Influential Models of China’s Future Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Role
- Differentiation in the Emerging Climate Regime
- In-Country Disparities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Their Significance for Politicizing a Future Global Climate Pact
- Close Examination of the Principle of Global Per-Capita Allocation of the Earth’s Ability to Absorb Greenhouse Gas
- Unilateral Carbon Taxes, Border Tax Adjustments and Carbon Leakage
- Where There’s a Will There’s a Way – A Theoretical Analysis of the Connection Between Social Policy and Environmental Performance
- Building a More Effective Global Climate Regime Through a Bottom-Up Approach
- International Governance of Climate Engineering