| Title | The slow-burning climate emergency and the European Green Deal: Prospects and pitfalls in the polycrisis era |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 62974 |
| Authors | Rosamond, J |
| Title | The slow-burning climate emergency and the European Green Deal: Prospects and pitfalls in the polycrisis era |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | The European Green Deal (EGD) and its European Climate Law have raised EU climate ambition to new heights by making the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 legally binding. However, the action plan was proposed in times of crisis, and competing economic, health, and geopolitical emergencies risk undermining the EU's climate objectives. In this chapter, I situate climate policy and the EGD against the backdrop of the polycrisis. I argue that crisis-era governance provides both prospects and pitfalls for EU actors to advance climate ambition. This chapter proceeds in several steps. First, I provide an overview of the EGD, the European Climate Law, and the Fit for 55 Package, discussing whether they mark a break from previous incremental steps forward. Next, I outline crisis trends that risk derailing the EU's climate ambition. Thirdly, I demonstrate the key role that each of the EU's institutions have played in facilitating the development of the EGD and the challenges they face to maintain momentum in crisis contexts. Finally, this chapter focuses on the COVID-19 crisis and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, showing that crises provide both opportunities and challenges for the EU to stay the course on advancing the goals of the EGD. I argue that actions like tying climate objectives to economic recovery and energy security plans demonstrate that the EU may have adapted to working within crisis contexts to maintain climate ambitions. However, this hopeful trend is fragile as economic and energy hardships risk exacerbating east-west member state divisions on climate policy, thereby giving the EU institutions less room to advance radical climate action. |
| https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01H19PZSB15H25XRPB9HMQF4TN/file/01HCHYQVHV4Z8ZCJS395RZY6JX.pdf |
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