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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.
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EU Climate Change Policy
NEw HorizoNs iN ENviroNmENtal law Series Editors: Kurt Deketelaere, Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Environmental and Energy Law, University of Leuven, Belgium and zen makuch, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College, London, UK. Environmental law is an increasingly important area of legal research. Given the increasingly interdependent web of global society and the signiicant steps being made towards environmental democracy in decision-making processes, there are few people that are untouched by environmental law-making processes. at the same time, environmental law is at a crossroads. the command and control methodology that evolved in the 1960s and 1970s for air, land and water protection may have reached the limit of its environmental protection achievements. New life needs to be injected into our environmental protection regimes. this new series seeks to press forward the boundaries of environmental law through inn