EU som global aktør i den internationale
klimapolitik - Implementeringen af EUs
klima- og energipakke
European 2020 strategy
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_20
10-2014/hedegaard/index_en.htm
Commission creates two new
Directorates-General for Energy and
Climate
Action
Two new Directorates-General have been created: DG Energy (ENER)
and DG Climate Action (CLIM). The commisions process of
appointing generals delayed the implementation process while it
was in caretaker mode. It also agreed to transfer a number of
activities from one DG to another to better align them with the
responsibilities of the respective portfolios of the Commissioners.
The DGs concerned are those for Mobility and Transport,
Competition, Enterprise and Industry, Environment, Humanitarian
Aid and Health and Consumers.To advance the Commission's
strategic approach on research, a task force, to be chaired by the
Secretary-General, has been set up. This will launch a strategic
reflection at Commission level on the evolution of the research
budget, the degree of externalisation in the management of
research programmes and the links between research and other
policies in organisational terms.
EU’s Klima- og Energipakke
2013-2020
• Præsenteret af Kommissionen den 23. januar 2008.
• Klima- og energipakken lægger pres på at fremme energieffektivitet, men det
er EU’s Energy Efficiency Action Plan, som adresserer udfordringerne direkte.
• Hvis der opnås en global klimaaftale (til COP15?), som medfører at andre
udviklede lande også forpligter sig til at gøre en seriøs indsats, vil EU som
helhed gå med til at formindske sin drivhusgasudledning med 30 %.
The 20-20-20 Targets
• En reduktion af EU-drivhusgasser til mindst 20 % under 1990niveau
• 20 % af EU’s energiforbrug skal stamme fra vedvarende
energikilder
• En reduktion på 20 % af energiforbruget
• Direktiv om fremme af vedvarende energikilder
(VE-diktivet)
• Direktiv til ændring af EU’s kvotehandelssystem
• Beslutning om reduktion af drivhusgasudledning fra
ikke-kvotebelagte sektorer
• Direktiv om CO2-opsamling og lagring i
undergrunden (CCS)
2 main challenges
1) The logic of the capitalist system goes against
sustainable development inherently
2) Lack of viable potential conditions of
possibility for bridging the gaps and
disparaties within a trans-disiplinary field or
research.
Positive processes
1) Opening up to public scrutiny
2) Politicisation of climate science
3) New media has enabled the entry of new &
important voices into the climate debate
4) Gradual move from carbon cost to consumer
and not producer (Helm)
“Any serious attempt to address global
climate change must contend with
global capitalism… This conception of
the world is incompatible with an
effective global response to climate
change.”
-Wainwright, 2010
disconnect is all the more surprising
because it has been widely claimed—
notably in the immensely influential
Stern Report (Stern, 2007)4— that the
costs of action now are comparatively
small; smaller even than the typical
annual differences between forecast
and actual GDP. A 1 per cent GDP cost
to stabilize emissions is perhaps less,
even, than the current impacts of the
credit crunch. Indeed, some claim that
mitigating climate change is actually
International
Transnational
National
Business
Science
Politics
Adaptive Governance
Decision Making: Decentralized & Bottom–up
Specialized networks: Support central authorities in
allocate resources
Case studies: Successful local policies can be shared
in networks of voluntary information diffusion
Policy Processes: Serial, relying on appraisals &
building on successful ones
Integrative: Each factor is contingent on a working
‘‘model’’ of the whole case; gaps and
inconsistencies in it prompt revisions
Tension exists within realms
“Research (on the climate issue) to date has
resulted mainly in technical advances and that
our understanding of the physical processes
that are driving climate has run far ahead of
our explanations of the social processes
driving the physical processes”
-Wainwright 2010
EU’s role marginalized @ the
international level
Disparity between who suffers the problem,
who caused it, who addresses it & who
currently benefits disproportionately from
global emissions
-Roberts & Parks, 2007
Bibliography
• Helm, D (2010) Climate-change policy: why
has so little been achieved? USA: Oxford
Journals
• Brunner, R.D. (2010) Adaptive governance as
a reform strategy. Boston: Policy Sciences
• Brunner, R. D., & Lynch, A. H. (2010). Adaptive
governance and climate change. Boston:
AmericanMeteorological Society