EU, Climate Change, and the Triangular World Politics

In the current stage of world politics, the unprecedented competition of three big powers, United States, China, and Russia, heavily influences the response of the world institutions to problems that are plaguing the whole system of the states beginning with the environment depletion and climate change problem. The thematic world conferences, especially the FCCC COP session conferences, are one of the stages of the triangular competition that frequently distances the making of functional environment policies. The paper stems from the notion of the conditioning influence of the great power competition on the making of the world policies towards collective problems, and focuses on the European Union role, possibly as the intermediary inclined to forward multilateral policy-making as option for advancing environment diplomacy.