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Popular Support and EU Climate Policy
Mats Braun – Metropolitan University Prague, [email protected]
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Share of respondents stating climate change as their main environmental worry (Eurobarometer)
2003: 39 percent
2007: 57 percent
2011: 34 percent
The single most serious problem facing the world:
2011: 20 percent
2013: 16 percent
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The Climate and Energy Package 2008/09
Internal climate change policies for period after 2012
Targets: 20/20 by 2020- Revision of the Emission Trading Directive- Effort sharing decision, national targets for
non ETS sectors- Binding national targets for renewable energy
sources- Directive on carbon capture
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Why the Climate and Energy Package in 2008?
The role of the European Commission- Increased concern in the Commission
about its popular support – end of the permissive consensus
- The failure of the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2005)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Was the role of supranational institutions strengthened?
- In the ETS – an EU wide emission cap (21%) replaced National Allocation Plans, enhancing the role of the EC
- Preferences with the commission for market based solutions, i.e. the ETS
- Renewable energy – turn form non-binding to binding national targets
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Possible outcomes of Europeanization according to Claudio Radaelli (2003)Inertia
Absorption
Transformation
Retrenchment
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How come agreement possible in 2008?
Rhetorical Entrapment
Unwillingness to go against the interests of France and Germany
Several Compromises made - Binding commitments on renewable challenged and watered down
The Central and East European member states at the time still ‘new’
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2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Framework (October 2014)40% emission reduction target by 2030
ETS 43% reduction and non-ETS sectors 30% by 2030, relative to 2005
Renewable energy target, at least 27%, but binding only on EU level
Non binding energy efficiency target of 27%
15% electricity interconnections target
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Differentiated integration and its limitations
- Renewable energy targets – ‘New Governance System’
- State aid guidelines of the EC- The role of the European Council,
reinstalling the veto right?