Implementing the European Green Deal during the Evolving Energy Crisis
Implementing the European Green Deal during the Evolving Energy Crisis
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在不断演变的能源危机期间实施欧洲绿色协议
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发表时间:
2022
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通讯作者:
C. Dupont
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作者:
Ingmar von Homeyer;S. Oberthür;C. Dupont
At first sight, two features stand out in the development of EU climate policy in 2021. First, the implementation of the European Green Deal, launched in 2019 (Eckert, 2021), advanced significantly through the adoption of the European Climate Law (Regulation 2021/1119) in June and the publication of the Commission’s ‘Fit for 55’ package of implementing legislation in July 2021 (European Commission, 2021c). Second, implementation of the Green Deal proceeded at a time of enduring and intensifying crises. Above the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, this included an energy crisis that unfolded in the course of 2021 and escalated dramatically following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. How has the implementation of the Green Deal fared under these conditions? Has the EU moved closer to, or further away from, a truly effective climate policy in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement? Existing literature does not provide clear-cut expectations. EU climate policy has long followed a pattern of ‘internationally leading but insufficient’, in the sense that it has been relatively ambitious by international comparison but has remained insufficient in view of the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the rise of global average temperature to well below 2°C or even 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels (Gheuens and Oberthür, 2021; Oberthür and Dupont, 2021; cf. UNEP, 2019). Sequential and overlapping crises have interacted with this pattern in various ways (von Homeyer et al., 2021). On the one hand, the global economic and financial crisis of 2008/2009 shifted the debate away from climate ambition towards other priorities and cost-efficiency, although the broad trajectory of EU climate policy continued (Gravey and Jordan, 2021, p. 347; Slominski, 2016). On the other hand, the political response to the COVID-19 crisis has been found to have the potential to accelerate the EU’s climate and energy transition (Dupont et al., 2020; Eckert, 2021). In both instances, the crises interacted with established political conflict lines on EU climate policy, prominently the one between more progressive Western and Northern and more sceptical Eastern EU Member States, led by Poland (Bocquillon and Maltby, 2017; Dupont et al., 2020; Eckert, 2021; Skjærseth, 2021). Against this backdrop, in investigating the development of EU climate policy under evolving crisis conditions in 2021 and early 2022, we advance two arguments. First, the implementation of the European Green Deal has progressed despite some headwinds, while EU climate policy has continued to fall short of what would be required in view of the 2/1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. Second, the still evolving energy crisis, strongly JCMS 2022 pp. 1–12 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13397
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10.1111/jcms.12194
发表时间:
2015
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ERN: Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances (Topic)
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作者:
Bailer;Mattila;Schneider
通讯作者:
Schneider