EU Climate Policy

Abstract

In the second half of the 2020s, the "European Green Deal" faces a critical inflection point. Originally framed as a transformative environmental roadmap, EU climate governance is now being recalibrated against a backdrop crisis - characterised by energy price volatility, the war in Ukraine, and intensifying global competition from the U.S. and China. This panel examines the institutional durability of EU climate policies, including the effect of a shift in discourse to one of ‘strategic competitiveness’. The papers examine how emergency politics drove the EU’s climate law, and the extent and effects of the shift to competitiveness, how this links to policy durability despite increased politicisation, how competitiveness is also linked to an emphasis on strategi autonomy within the industrial strategy, and how this effects and is driven by the EV sector. The panel also considers trade-offs between renewables and biomass.

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The European Climate Law in Crisis: Constructing Urgency	View Paper Details
The Durability of EU Climate and Energy Governance in an Era of Turbulence	View Paper Details
Towards Net-Zero in the EU? Explaining the Ratcheting Up of the EU LULUCF Regulation and its Policy Implications	View Paper Details
Changing EU Institutional Discourses on the Green Deal: from the First to the Second Von Der Leyen Commission	View Paper Details
Governing the Green Transition: Institutional Structures and Policy Choices	View Paper Details