Measuring and explaining the EU’s effect on national climate performance
- To what extent has the European Union (EU) had a benign or retarding effect on what its member states would have undertaken in the absence of EU climate policies during 2008–2012? A measurement tool for the EU policy’s effect is developed and shows a benign average EU effect with considerable variation across countries. The EU’s policy effectiveness vis-à-vis its member states is explained by the EU’s non-compliance mechanism, the degree of usage of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms, and national pre-Kyoto emission reduction goals. Time-series cross-sectional analyses show that the EU’s non-compliance mechanism has no effect, while the ex-ante plans for using Kyoto flexible mechanisms and/or the ambitious pre-Kyoto emission reduction targets allow member states to escape constraints imposed by EU climate policy.
| Author details: | Lydia AvramiORCiD, Detlef F. SprinzORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1494945 |
| ISSN: | 0964-4016 |
| ISSN: | 1743-8934 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Environmental Politics |
| Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2018 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/05/12 |
| Tag: | Climate change; EU; Kyoto (flexible) mechanisms; kyoto protocol; non-compliance; policy effectiveness |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Number of pages: | 25 |
| First page: | 822 |
| Last Page: | 846 |
| Funding institution: | Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) [5001552] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften |
