1st Edition

Making the European Green Deal Work EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad

Edited By Helene Dyrhauge, Kristina Kurze Copyright 2024
224 Pages 2 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

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.