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EU Climate Policy after the Crisis

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Summary, in English

In the period 2009–2011, Member States discussed whether the EU should

increase its emissions reduction target for 2020 beyond the existing 20%. This discussion has not resulted in any agreement, the different actors being deeply divided between those calling for a step-up to a higher target (for instance 30%) and those opposed to any kind of increase. The division can be seen as a result of a conflict between policy frames. The economic crisis has deepened the division between those who see climate-change policy as detrimental to growth and those seeing it as beneficial to growth. Whereas the latter group – including the UK and DG Climate Action – subscribe to the

green growth policy frame, the former – including Poland – subscribe to the ‘trade-off policy frame’. Many Member States have been internally divided between proponents and opponents of a step-up, often with environment ministries in the former camp and finance and economics ministries in the latter.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1-17

Publication/Series

Environmental Politics

Volume

23

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • European Union
  • policy frames
  • economic crisis
  • ecological modernisation

Status

Published

Project

  • Leadership Abandoned? – Explaining the EU’s Position in the Global Climate Change Negotiations 2007-2010

Research group

  • Miljöpolitik

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0964-4016