The European Union in Crisis: What Future for the EU in International Climate Policy? IES Policy Brief Issue 2016/18 • October 2016

Oberthür, Sebastian (2016) The European Union in Crisis: What Future for the EU in International Climate Policy? IES Policy Brief Issue 2016/18 • October 2016. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

Despite an apparently ever-growing number of crises in Europe over the past decade, the fundamental rationale of the European Union (EU) and its member states actively and jointly exerting leadership in international climate and energy policy has not changed. The members of the Union remain bound together by common policies closely linked to the single market. They also have a common interest in fighting climate change and enhancing energy security and reaping the many economic opportunities of the ‘new climate economy’. And, with individual member states being vulnerable and lacking clout, they share a strategic interest in jointly shaping evolving international climate and energy governance. The crises therefore do not call for scaling down EU climate leadership ambitions, but for adjusting the leadership strategy.

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