EU Climate Change Policy

Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Kurt Deketelaere, University of Leuven, Belgium

Contents:

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Key Challenges of EU Climate Change Policy: Competences, Measures and Compliance
Kurt Deketelaere and Marjan Peeters

2. Climate Change: The International and European Policy Framework
Marc Pallemaerts and Rhiannon Williams

3. The European Union, Russia and the Kyoto Protocol
Wybe Th. Douma

PART II: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING WITHIN THE EU
4. Reviewing the Challenging Task Faced by Member States in Implementing the Emissions Trading Directive: Issues of Member State Liability
Mar Campins Eritja

5. A Level Playing Field? Initial Allocation of Allowances in Member States
Bettina Schmitt-Rady

6. Linking the Project Based Mechanisms with the EU ETS; the Present State of Affairs and Challenges Ahead
Javier de Cendra de Larragán

7. Emissions Trading and the Aarhus Convention: A Proportionate Symbiosis?
Karen MacDonald and Zen Makuch

8. The IPPC Permit and the Greenhouse Gas Permit
Birgitte Egelund Olsen

9. Enforcement of the EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme
Marjan Peeters

10. A Decade of Emissions Trading in the USA: Experiences and Observations for the EU
George (Rock) Pring

11. Climate Change Taxes, Emission Trading, and International Trade Law
Geert van Calster

PART III: ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MEASURES
12. EU Energy Policy and Legislation under Pressure since the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol?
Véronique Bruggeman and Bram Delvaux

13. Energy Taxation within the EU
Manfred Rosenstock

14. Critical Issues in Implementing Energy Taxation
Claudia Dias Soares

PART IV: GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: REFLECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
15. Some Reflections on the EU Mix of Instruments on Climate Change
Ludwig Krämer

16. Good Governance and Climate Change: Recommendations from a North–South Perspective
Joyeeta Gupta

Index