The single market currently sits at the centre of the European economic integration project and plays a key role in the EU processes of political and social integration.This centrality would have been purely totemic had it not been for the inherent success and resilience of the European...

Emissions trading schemes (ETSs) are policy tools designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions where this can be done in the most cost effective way. Existing and proposed schemes generally take the form of cap-and-trade systems, meaning that there is a political commitment to limit overall...

The fast deployment of renewable energy is crucial in the fight against climate change. While there are significant advances from the technological, commercial and even public opinion perspective, renewable energy still faces significant obstacles and barriers which justify a significant public...

The interface of trade and climate change mitigation and adaptation is at the heart of contemporary legal developments in energy law. Yet, the challenges of climate change are merely the tip of the iceberg of unresolved and controversial issues relating to the status of energy in international...

This book puts together several contributions that, from various time, system and disciplinary perspectives, address the same questions – what has shaped subsidy laws? Which actors mould subsidy and State aid law and what forces are at work? The book includes reports from former or current...

This paper highlights that the question of policy space with respect to public support to electricity cannot be answered by clinically isolating legal rules from their factual background - constituted of technological innovations, market developments and the broader political economy. Various...

The single market currently sits at the centre of the European economic integration project and plays a key role in the EU processes of political and social integration.This centrality would have been purely totemic had it not been for the inherent success and resilience of the European...