Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its … environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change …

implementation of the EU's Eco- Management and Audit Scheme in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The starting point of the …

Currently the European Union (EU) consists of a group of nation states that exhibit an array of constitutional systems …, ranging from the unitary to the fully federal. Among the EU member states, the United Kingdom (UK) has traditionally been … has been 'reserved' to the UK Executive in Whitehall and the Parliament in Westminster is international relations and EU …

policy, the EU burden sharing agreement and the UK Climate Change Agreements feature this incentive scheme. There is only a …

about and politics towards palm oil with special focus on the EU. Palm oil is a low-energy and low-fertilizer crop that … much higher than in most monocultures in the EU. Palm oil is an important driver of economic development and growth in … tropical countries and contributes to the reduction of poverty and hunger in the developing world. The EU Renewable Energy …

(EU). The integration (or mainstreaming) of environmental objectives into non environmental policies such as agriculture … embed EPI in micro policy processes i.e. the bottom-up formulation and implementation of EU policies in administrative …

industrialised states and the European Union (EU). The adoption of NEPIs offers a good touchstone because governance theory treats …

countries to the southern Mediterranean. Academic attention for the promotion and exportation of the EU model has been high and … two central debates have emerged, the EU as a normative power and EU external governance which are, as the paper argues …, based on the common notion of the EU exporting its model and therefore complementary. While many empirical studies on the …

EU has decided to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% relative to 1990 until the year 2020. These reductions will even rise … competitiveness as a priority area for EU policy and there is some concern about the competitiveness effects of EU climate policy. We … use the multi-sector, multi-region computable general equilibrium model DART to assess the impacts of the recent EU …