Transcript Popular Support and EU Climate Policy Mats Braun – Metropolitan University Prague

Popular Support and EU
Climate Policy
Mats Braun – Metropolitan University
Prague, [email protected]
Share of respondents stating climate
change as their main environmental
worry (Eurobarometer)
2003: 39 percent
2007: 57 percent
2011: 34 percent
The single most serious problem facing the
world:
2011: 20 percent
2013: 16 percent
The Climate and Energy Package
2008/09
Internal climate change policies for period after
2012
Targets: 20/20 by 2020
- Revision of the Emission Trading Directive
- Effort sharing decision, national targets for
non ETS sectors
- Binding national targets for renewable energy
sources
- Directive on carbon capture
Why the Climate and Energy
Package in 2008?
The role of the European Commission
- Increased concern in the Commission
about its popular support – end of the
permissive consensus
- The failure of the Treaty Establishing a
Constitution for Europe (2005)
- United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change
Was the role of supranational
institutions strengthened?
-
In the ETS – an EU wide emission cap
(21%) replaced National Allocation
Plans, enhancing the role of the EC
-
Preferences with the commission for
market based solutions, i.e. the ETS
-
Renewable energy – turn form nonbinding to binding national targets
Possible outcomes of
Europeanization according to
Claudio Radaelli (2003)
Inertia
Absorption
Transformation
Retrenchment
How come agreement
possible in 2008?
Rhetorical Entrapment
Unwillingness to go against the interests of France and
Germany
Several Compromises made - Binding commitments on
renewable challenged and watered down
The Central and East European member states at the
time still ‘new’
2030 EU Climate and Energy
Policy Framework (October
2014)
40% emission reduction target by 2030
ETS 43% reduction and non-ETS sectors
30% by 2030, relative to 2005
Renewable energy target, at least 27%,
but binding only on EU level
Non binding energy efficiency target of
27%
15% electricity interconnections target
Differentiated
integration and its
limitations
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Renewable energy targets – ‘New Governance
System’
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State aid guidelines of the EC
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The role of the European Council,
reinstalling the veto right?
Thank you for your attention
Contact:
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