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From Kyoto to Paris: the European Union's contribution to a new world climate order

  • Dades identificatives

    Identificador: RP:2205
  • Autors:

    Pérez de las Heras, Beatriz
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    Autor/s de la URV: Pérez de las Heras, Beatriz
    Paraules clau: Paris Agreement Kyoto Protocol mitigation European Union climate change
    Resum: The European Union (EU)’s climate policy is closely linked to its commitments under the international regime of the United Nations (UN). The Union was a party to the Kyoto Protocol; it contributed to its ratification and largely surpassed its mitigation obligations during the first commitment period (2008-2012). It is currently one of the few developed parties with voluntary mitigation obligations for the second Kyoto commitment period (2013-2020), whose scope and contents draw critically on the EU 2020 climate-energy package. While implementing this binding framework, the EU is giving legal contents to the 2030 climate-energy package as a major contribution to the new international climate regime under the Paris Agreement, in whose design and adoption the Union also played a key role. Recent policies and other proposals now in prospect are intended to transform the EU into a competitive and sustainable economy by 2050. The new measures also signal the way for further collective action beyond 2025 under the Paris Agreement.
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2018
    Tipus de publicació: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • Paraules clau:

    Paris Agreement
    Kyoto Protocol
    mitigation
    European Union
    climate change
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