This book explores in detail the involvement of the European Union (EU) in international climate negotiations from 1986 to present. The EU has been a leading force in the development of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regime and had it not been for the EU, it is likely that Kyoto Protocol targets would have been less ambitious and that the Protocol itself would have never been ratified. The EU has also gone a long way in putting into place a number of policy instruments that will enable it to implement the ambitious emissions reductions targets to which it has subscribed. Positive as all these steps may appear, there have been a good number of instances in the past where the EU has failed markedly to achieve its climate change objectives (e.g. the 2009 Copenhagen Conference of the Parties). Understanding the reasons behind these failures is important, as it can allow the EU to improve on its shortcomings in future negotiation settings. This book therefore is not so much about the EU as a leader in international climate politics, as it is about the EU as a negotiator. The two are not the same, even though these terms are often conflated. While the EU’s leadership role has been largely acknowledged, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive discussion of the evolving role of the EU as a negotiator.
To enhance our understanding of the shortcomings of the Union as an international climate negotiator, this book engages with a different corpus of literature; that on negotiation theory. Through means of a detailed analysis of EU participation in multilateral climate negotiations, it is argued that looking at the role played by problematic strategic planning could prove highly instructive. This broad historical perspective of the EU’s negotiations in international climate policy is an invaluable resource to scholars or environmental and European politics, policy, law and governance.
Stavros Afionis is a Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK.
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