Making the European Green Deal Work : EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad

This book critically analyses different dimensions in the sustainable transitions outlined by the European Green Deal, focusing on both internal actions and external relations and highlighting the EU's diverging powers and capabilities in achieving the core objectives. As with the Green Deal itself, the chapters cover different policies including financial instruments, energy policies, climate policies and external policies and apply the ideal-type logics of appropriateness and consequences to analyse sustainable transformations. The variety of the cases contributes to a broad understanding of how different actors interpret and implement the aims of the European Green Deal, including especially those lagging behind, who, for various reasons, are struggling with the sustainable transition. From examining their policies, the book illuminates the challenges and opportunities they are facing. Overall, the contributions address key questions surrounding the EU's powers and limits in inducing transformative change and implementing the European Green Deal. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of EU sustainability policies, sustainability transitions and green economy, environmental studies, energy policy, energy governance and climate change, public policy, comparative politics and international relations. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction – Making the European Green Deal work: EU sustainability policies at home and abroad Part I Making the European Green Deal work at home Chapter 1 The European Green Deal: Shifting the EU’s gaze towards the future? Chapter 2 Green fiscal systems: Their role in the European Green Deal Chapter 3 The role of the European Investment Bank in financing the green transition Chapter 4 The keys to the EU’s climate neutrality goal: Forest carbon and LULUCF Chapter 5 Renovating Europe: How to start and steer a wave? Chapter 6 The role of conditionality in the relationship between the EU and the Visegrád Four countries Chapter 7 Proper in speech, careful in acts: Slovenia’s challenging transition to climate neutrality Part II Making the European Green Deal work abroad Chapter 8 Green deal diplomacy towards regional organisations: Assessing the EU’s potential diplomatic leverage Chapter 9 Protection of the global climate in EU–Russia relations: An assessment of norm strength and logic of action Chapter 10 When climate action is strategic: The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy towards Egypt Chapter 11 Just transition and the European Green Deal: The case of coal mining in Colombia Conclusion Index