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1 online resource |
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The future of Europe |
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Future of Europe (Springer (Firm))
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| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Keywords -- Why This Book? -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Member States -- Austria: Weathering the Storm and Greening the Economy? -- Recommendations -- Belgiumś Climate Policy: High Expectations, Low Performance -- Heightening Public Awareness -- Low Performance -- Energy Vulnerability -- The Involvement of Companies in the Transition -- Pros and Cons in the Fight Against Climate Change -- Public Perception of Government Action -- Belgiumś Position in the European Context -- Recommendations |
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Between Fighting for Climate Change and Fighting for Coal: The Bulgarian Case -- Recommendations -- Croatia: Needs Versus Capacity: Mind the Gap! -- Recommendations -- Cyprus: Global Energy Crisis Is an Opportunity to Tackle Climate Change -- Climate Change: Concerns and Expectations -- Green Deal and Green Transition -- A Climate Change Initiative for the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East -- Recommendations -- Czechia: Saving the Climate or the Czech Industry? -- The Paradoxical Elites-Public Scepticism Gap -- Czechiaś Environmental Reluctance and the EU as a Pace Setter |
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Recommendations -- Denmark: Climate as a Given -- Climate Is Not Politically Contested -- From Global Front Runner to European Partner? -- Frugality Poses a Risk to the Danish Climate Ambition -- Recommendations -- Has Estonia Already Lost the Path to Achieving Its Climate Goals? -- Has Estonia Lost Its Focus on Achieving Climate Goals? -- Recommendations -- Finlandś Fight Against Climate Change: Ambitious Yet Pragmatic Approach -- Recommendations -- France: Not Living up to Its Ambition -- In France, a Series of Small Steps Is Not Adding up to ̀An In-Depth Transformation ́of the Model |
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Lost in the Politics of Small Steps -- At European Level, Neither a Pioneer Nor a Climate Leader -- Recommendations -- The Fight Against Climate Change in Germany: From Energiewende to Zeitenwende? -- Recommendations -- Greeceś New Energy and Climate Strategy. A Story of Hope? -- Setting the Scene -- Greeceś Climate Change Performance -- The New Climate Change and Energy Transition Legislation -- Enhancing Energy Cooperation in Response to the War in Ukraine -- Hard Pressed by External Actors: Sustainability Transition in Hungary -- Recommendations |
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Now, We Need Action:́ Irelandś Fight Against Climate Change -- The 2020s: A Decade of Ambitious Emissions Reduction -- Public Support for Climate Action in Ireland -- The Winds of Change -- Managing Electricity Demand in the 2020s -- Addressing Agriculture -- Climate Change and the Irish-EU Relationship -- Recommendations -- Vulnerable and Unprepared: Assessing Italyś Path to Fight Climate Change -- Recommendations -- Nature Friendly Latvia Against Its Unnatural Climate Change Problem -- Recommendations -- Climate Change Policies in Lithuania: As Usual, Words Speak Louder Than Actions |
| Summary |
While the ambitious objectives outlined in the EUs Green Deal aim at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, national implementation greatly varies depending on local geographies, history, culture, economics, and politics. This book analyses Member States and EU neighbours national efforts to combat climate change. It subsequently draws on these factors to highlight local challenges, tensions, and opportunities on the road towards climate neutrality. In the context of inter-country dependencies following Russias war against Ukraine, it addresses strategic questions regarding EU integration, the transformation of our economies, the reduction of energy dependencies, and public perception of the above. The book also makes concrete recommendations, in various policy areas, on how individual countries and the EU as a whole should deal with the climate crisis. The Editors Dr. Michael Kaeding holds a Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and European Union Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is a visiting fellow of the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht and member of the flying faculties of the College of Europe, Bruges, and the Turkish-German University in Istanbul. From 2016 to 2019 he was the chairman of the Trans European Policy Studies Association. Dr. Johannes Pollak is a Professor of International Relations and rector of Webster Vienna Private University, Austria. Prior to this position, he headed the Department of Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. In summer 2019, he was elected Chairperson of the Board of the Institute of European Politics in Berlin. Paul Schmidt is the Secretary General of the Austrian Society for European Politics, which promotes and supports the analysis of and communication on European affairs. Prior to that he has worked at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, both in Vienna and at its office in Brussels at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
European Union
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| SUBJECT |
European Union fast |
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Climate change mitigation -- Europe
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Climate change mitigation -- European Union countries
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Climate change mitigation
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Europe
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaeding, Michael, editor.
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Pollak, Johannes, 1969- editor.
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Schmidt, Paul, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
303123328X |
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9783031233289 |
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