Essential EU climate law

EU climate law is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing areas of EU law. This new textbook provides a comprehensive account of essential EU climate mitigation law. In addition, the contents cover a number of important and topical issues related to the EU’s efforts to tackle climate change.

Written by some of the key thinkers on EU climate law from the University of Groningen, each chapter addresses the relevant directives and regulations as well as their implementation issues, explaining how this affects current policy and academic debate. The chapters therefore not only describe but also critically reflect upon EU climate law.

Key features include:
- Comprehensive introduction to EU climate mitigation law
- Discussion of the climate targets and instruments of the EU
- Review of the relevant climate-related directives and regulations
- Analysis of their implementation problems
- Relationship between climate law and broader issues including energy law
- Educational design based on reviews by climate law students.

The combination of educational design and analytical accuracy makes the textbook suitable for both students and professionals. This introduction is recommended for courses on EU climate mitigation law, also in the context of broader curricula on climate law, energy law and EU law in general.

Contents:

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Purpose, approach and outline of the book
2. EU climate policy

PART II: ESSENTIAL EU CLIMATE LAW
3. The EU greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme
4. Regulation of fluorinated gases
5. Regulation of emissions from non-ETS sectors
6. Renewable energy consumption
7. Energy efficiency
8. Carbon capture and storage

PART III: OVERARCHING ISSUES IN EU CLIMATE REGULATION
9. EU climate regulation, competition and competitiveness
10. EU climate regulation and energy network management
11. Multi-level governance in EU climate law

PART IV: CONCLUSION
12. The past and possible future of EU climate law

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