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EU Climate and Energy Policy: A Hesitant Supranational Turn?

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  • Jørgen Wettestad

    (Jørgen Wettestad is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway.)

  • Per Ove Eikeland

    (Per Ove Eikeland is a Research Fellow with the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway.)

  • Måns Nilsson

    (Måns Nilsson is Deputy Director and Research Director at the Stockholm Environment Institute, and Visiting Professor in Environmental Strategies Research at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.)

Abstract

This article examines the recent changes of three central EU climate and energy policies: the revised Emissions Trading Directive (ETS); the Renewables Directive (RES); and internal energy market (IEM) policy. An increasing transference of competence to EU level institutions, and hence “vertical integration,” has taken place, most clearly in the case of the ETS. The main reasons for the differing increase in vertical integration are, first, that more member states were dissatisfied with the pre-existing system in the case of the ETS than in the two other cases. Second, the European Commission and Parliament were comparatively more united in pushing for changes in the case of the ETS. And, third, although RES and IEM policies were influenced by regional energy security concerns, they were less structurally linked to and influenced by the global climate regime than the ETS. © 2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Jørgen Wettestad & Per Ove Eikeland & Måns Nilsson, 2012. "EU Climate and Energy Policy: A Hesitant Supranational Turn?," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 12(2), pages 67-86, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:67-86
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    Keywords

    climate policy; energy policy; environmental politics; Emissions Trading Directive; Renewables Directive; internal energy market; European Union;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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