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Making the European Green Deal Work EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad
This book critically analyses different dimensions in the sustainable transitions outlined by the European Green Deal, focusing on both internal actions and external relations and highlighting the EU’s diverging powers and capabilities in achieving the core objectives.
As with the Green Deal itself, the chapters cover different policies including financial instruments, energy policies, climate policies and external policies and apply the ideal-type logics of appropriateness and consequences to analyse sustainable transformations. The variety of the cases contribute to a broad understanding of how different actors interpret and implement the aims of the European Green Deal, including especially those lagging behind, who, for various reasons, are struggling with the sustainable transition. From examining their policies, the book illuminates the challenges and opportunities they are facing. Overall, the contributions address key questions surrounding the EU’s powers and limits in inducing transformative change and implementing the European Green Deal.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of EU sustainability policies, sustainability transitions and green economy, environmental studies, energy policy, energy governance and climate change, public policy, comparative politics and international relations.
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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Making the European Green Deal work: EU sustainability policies at home and abroad
Helene Dyrhauge and Kristina Kurze
Part I: Making the European Green Deal work at home
1. The European Green Deal: Shifting the EU’s gaze towards the future?
Jana Gheuens
2. Green fiscal systems: Their role in the European Green Deal
Rosa Fernandez
3. The role of the European Investment Bank in financing the green transition
Helen Kavvadia
4. The keys to the EU’s climate neutrality goal: Forest carbon and LULUCF
Sonia Chikh M’hamed and Detlef F. Sprinz
5. Renovating Europe: How to start and steer a wave?
Jonas J. Schoenefeld, Britta Stein and Ina Renz
6. The role of conditionality in the relationship between the EU and the Visegrád Four countries
Rafal Fabianowicz
7. Proper in speech, careful in acts: Slovenia’s challenging transition to climate neutrality
Danijel Crnčec, Jerneja Penca and Marko Lovec
Part II: Making the European Green Deal work abroad
8. Green deal diplomacy towards regional organisations: Assessing the EU’s potential diplomatic leverage
Sören Münch and Kristina Kurze
9. Protection of the global climate in EU–Russia relations: An assessment of norm strength and logic of action
Danijel Crnčec, Jure Požgan and Ana Bojinović Fenko
10. When climate action is strategic: The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy towards Egypt
Defne Günay
11. Just transition and the European Green Deal: The case of coal mining in Colombia
Gabriel Weber, Laura Ardila and Ignazio Cabras
Conclusion
Helene Dyrhauge and Kristina Kurze
Index
Biography
Helene Dyrhauge is Associate Professor in International Public Administration and Politics in the Department for Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark.
Kristina Kurze is Associate Professor of International and European Politics at Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
