A5049424814- European Union Policy and Governance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- World Trade Organization Law
- EU Law and Policy Analysis
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- European and International Law Studies
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Environmental law and policy
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Global trade and economics
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Agricultural safety and regulations
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Coastal and Marine Management
- International Development and Aid
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Regional Development and Policy
- Polish socio-economic development
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- State Capitalism and Financial Governance
- Russia and Soviet political economy
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2020-2025
Ecologic Institute
2002-2009
The EU has demonstrated increasing commitment to combating climate change. In December 2019, the European Commission published Green Deal (EGD) – an evolving, overarching strategy that aims achieve neutrality by 2050. Just as plans were underway implement EGD, Covid-19 crisis hit. We ask whether it is likely represents a critical juncture for policy, and why? Experience from previous economic crises suggests policy may be set aside. 2020, EU's response seems rather advance at least on paper....
This article analyses the development of mix EU climate policy instruments and level integration (CPI) in twenty-first century. Complementing established criteria ambition stringency, analysis instrument CPI enables a fuller assessment transformational potential governance. We argue that both have significantly advanced towards matching 'super-wicked' nature challenge, although important gaps challenges remain addressing all relevant sectors, barriers drivers. First, governance has...
The EU has long pursued relatively ambitious climate and energy policies, often against the backdrop of what been termed ‘polycrisis’. This paper introduces a special issue which seeks to develop better understanding why, how with consequences polycrisis governance have influenced each other. It draws on novel framework five broad crisis trends underlying polycrisis. Most contributions suggest that advanced significantly despite, sometimes even because of, trends. countervailing effects...
Abstract The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation measures and governance tools, including legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, addressing emissions trading, renewable energy, energy efficiency, more. In 2019, Commission—the EU's executive arm—published Green Deal (EGD), an overarching framework achieve goal neutrality by 2050. EGD aims push EU far beyond incremental...
This contribution examines the potential impact of eastern enlargement on EU environmental governance. Whereas some observers see as a threat to governance, this argues that it should be seen an opportunity intensify ongoing reform efforts. view is based three main premises. First, likely have differential effect governance regimes which together constitute policy. Second, poses one these in fact already producing reactions may allow regime continue operate context enlarged EU. Third,...
While trade sustainability impact assessments (trade SIAs) have generated much useful information about the potential impacts of liberalisation, they made very limited on negotiations, which generate unresolved controversy, if not deadlock. This paper contends that one reason for this is SIAs do explicitly recognise motives countries to resist free trade. Five such are identified, with different characteristics and validity from perspective social welfare enhancement sustainable development....