The adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 was a major achievement in the endeavour to tackle the problem of global climate change at the dawn of the 21st century. After many years of involvement in the negotiation process, the book's two internationally recognised authors now offer the international community a first hand and inside perspective of the debate on the Kyoto Protocol. The book provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the history and content of the Protocol itself as well as of the economic, political and legal implications of its implementation. It also presents a perspective for the further development of the climate regime. These important features make this book an indispensable working tool for policy makers, negotiators, academics and all those actively involved and interested in climate change issues in both the developed and developing world.

The Performance of the EU in International Institutions marks one of the first attempts to systematically analyse the subject. It focuses on the role of the EU in decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. The book unpacks the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness (goal achievement); efficiency (ratio between outputs accomplished and costs incurred); relevance (of the EU for its priority stakeholders); and financial/resource viability (the ability of the performing organization to raise the funds required). Based on the case studies herein, the findings presented in this book relate to the identified core elements of performance with a particular emphasis on the dimensions of 'effectiveness' and 'relevance'. Most notably, the EU appears, on balance and over the past two decades, to have become much more relevant for its member states when acting within international institutions. The book highlights four particular factors explaining EU performance in international institutions: the status of relevant EU legislation and policies, the legal framework conditions including the relevant changes that the Lisbon Treaty has brought about, domestic EU politics, and the international context. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration

The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80-95 per cent by 2050, and how or whether the EU's 2050 objective to 'decarbonise' could affect the EU's relations with a number of external energy partners.

Contributing to the emerging literature on the geopolitical and foreign policy implications of decarbonisation and energy transition processes, this book sheds light on the future of the European Union's (EU) external relations under decarbonisation. Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted in 2015, governments are committed to phasing out the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases over the coming decades. This book addresses the many questions around this process of decarbonisation through detailed analyses of EU external relations with six fossil-fuel exporting countries: Nigeria, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Qatar, and Canada. The authors systematically examine the six countries' varying dependence on fossil fuels, the broader political and security context, current relations with the EU, and the potential for developing these towards decarbonisation. In doing so, they put forward a series of findings that should hold across varying circumstances and provide a steppingstone to enrich and inspire further research on foreign policy, external relations, and international relations under decarbonisation. The book also makes an important contribution to understanding the external implications of the 2019 European Green Deal. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of European environmental and climate policy, climate diplomacy, energy policy, foreign policy, and climate/energy geopolitics. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003183037, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD's initial 1992 framework of global ABS governance established the objective of sharing the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources fairly between countries and communities. Since then, ABS has been a contested issue in international politics - not least due to the failure of effective implementation of the original CBD framework. The Nagoya Protocol therefore aims to improve and enhance this framework. Compared to the slow rate of progress on climate change, it has been considered a major achievement of global environmental governance, but it has also been coined a 'masterpiece of ambiguity'. This book analyses the role of a variety of actors in the emergence of the Nagoya Protocol and provides an up-to-date assessment of the core features of the architecture of global ABS governance. This book offers a central resource regarding ABS governance for those working on and interested in global environmental governance. This is achieved by focusing on two broad themes of the wider research agenda on global environmental governance, namely architecture and agency. Furthermore, individual chapter contributions relate and link ABS governance to other prominent debates in the field, such as institutional complexes, compliance, market-based approaches, EU leadership, the role of small states, the role of non-state actors and more. Partly due to its seeming technical complexity, ABS governance has so far not been at the centre of attention of scholars and practitioners of global environmental governance. In this book, care is taken to provide an accessible account of key functional features of the governance system which enables non-specialists to gain a grasp on the main issues involved, allowing the issue of ABS governance to move centre-stage and be more fully recognised in discussions on global environmental governance.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD's initial 1992 framework of global ABS governance established the objective of sharing the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources fairly between countries and communities. Since then, ABS has been a contested issue in international politics - not least due to the failure of effective implementation of the original CBD framework. The Nagoya Protocol therefore aims to improve and enhance this framework. Compared to the slow rate of progress on climate change, it has been considered a major achievement of global environmental governance, but it has also been coined a 'masterpiece of ambiguity'. This book analyses the role of a variety of actors in the emergence of the Nagoya Protocol and provides an up-to-date assessment of the core features of the architecture of global ABS governance. This book offers a central resource regarding ABS governance for those working on and interested in global environmental governance. This is achieved by focusing on two broad themes of the wider research agenda on global environmental governance, namely architecture and agency. Furthermore, individual chapter contributions relate and link ABS governance to other prominent debates in the field, such as institutional complexes, compliance, market-based approaches, EU leadership, the role of small states, the role of non-state actors and more. Partly due to its seeming technical complexity, ABS governance has so far not been at the centre of attention of scholars and practitioners of global environmental governance. In this book, care is taken to provide an accessible account of key functional features of the governance system which enables non-specialists to gain a grasp on the main issues involved, allowing the issue of ABS governance to move centre-stage and be more fully recognised in discussions on global environmental governance.

The Performance of the EU in International Institutions marks one of the first attempts to systematically analyse the subject. It focuses on the role of the EU in decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. The book unpacks the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness (goal achievement); efficiency (ratio between outputs accomplished and costs incurred); relevance (of the EU for its priority stakeholders); and financial/resource viability (the ability of the performing organization to raise the funds required). Based on the case studies herein, the findings presented in this book relate to the identified core elements of performance with a particular emphasis on the dimensions of 'effectiveness' and 'relevance'. Most notably, the EU appears, on balance and over the past two decades, to have become much more relevant for its member states when acting within international institutions. The book highlights four particular factors explaining EU performance in international institutions: the status of relevant EU legislation and policies, the legal framework conditions including the relevant changes that the Lisbon Treaty has brought about, domestic EU politics, and the international context. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration

The adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 was a major achievement in the endeavour to tackle the problem of global climate change at the dawn of the 21st century. After many years of involvement in the negotiation process, the book's two internationally recognised authors now offer the international community a first hand and inside perspective of the debate on the Kyoto Protocol. The book provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the history and content of the Protocol itself as well as of the economic, political and legal implications of its implementation. It also presents a perspective for the further development of the climate regime. These important features make this book an indispensable working tool for policy makers, negotiators, academics and all those actively involved and interested in climate change issues in both the developed and developing world.

Die internationale Klimapolitik ist an einem Wendepunkt angekommen. Die Annahme des Kyoto-Protokolls ist ein grosser Schritt in dem Versuch der Menschheit, die schadlichen Folgen des Klimawandels zu begrenzen. Dieses Buch, geschrieben von zwei deutschen Experten, erklart die naturwissenschaftlichen, okonomischen sowie politischen Bedingungen desTreibhauseffekts und erlautert die Hintergrunde der Annahme des Kyoto-Protokolls.Das Buch analysiert in seinem Mittelteil den Vertragstext im Stile eines Gesetzeskommentars, nennt die offenen Fragen und gibt mogliche Antworten fur die Weiterentwicklung der Normen. In einem dritten Teil werden Schlussfolgerungen gezogen, die politische Landschaft nach Kyoto beleuchtet und eine Leadership-Initiative fur die Europaische Union vorgestellt, um die Handlungsmacht gegenuber den USA wieder zu erlangen."

Internationale Umweltpolitik hat in den vergangeneo Jahren einen erhebli chen Bedeutungszuwachs erfahren. Von Tag zu Tag tritt deutlicher hervor, dass fur eine wirksame Bearbeitung vieler Umweltprobleme international koordiniert vorgegangen werden muss, um langfristig tragfiihige Losungen zu erreichen und innergesellschaftliche Widerstande gegen mitunter kosten trachtige Umweltschutzmassnahmen abzubauen. Aus diesem Grund haben Staaten in den vergangeneo Jahrzehnten eine wachsende Anzahl internationa ler Abkommen zum Schutz der Umwelt abgeschlossen, in deren institutionel lem Rahmen sie jeweils spezifische Umweltprobleme dauerhaft bearbeiten. Ein grosser, wenn nicht der grosste Teil der internationalen Umweltpolitik steht im Zusammenhang mit solchen zwischenstaatlichen Umweltabkommen und den mit ihnen verbundenen politischen Entscheidungsstrukturen und -prozessen. Diese Institutionen werden wissenschaftlich gemeinhin als "inter nationale Umweltregime" bezeichnet. Trotz ihrer erheblichen und wachsenden Bedeutung gibt es bislang im deutschsprachigen Raum keine allgemein zugangliche Einfuhrung in die The matik internationaler Umweltregime. Bei der Planung und Durchfuhrung mehrerer politikwissenschaftlicher Seminare durch die Herausgeber wurde zudem deutlich, dass fUr viele Umweltregime noch nicht einmal zugangliche Einzeldarstellungen existieren. Weiterhin zeigte sich, dass politikwissenschaft liche und volkerrechtliche Beitrage zum Thema bislang kaum voneinander Kenntnis nehmen, obwohl sie denselben Untersuchungsgegenstand betrach ten. Der vorliegende Sammelband hat das Ziel, die so umschriebene Lucke zu schliessen."

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die uberarbeitete Fassung meiner Dissertation, die unter dem Titel "Der Beitrag internationaler Regime zur Losung von Um weltproblemen" im Sommersemester 1995 vom Fachbereich Politische Wis senschaft der Freien Universitat Berlin angenommen wurde. Mein Dank gilt zunachst den Betreuern und Gutachtern der Arbeit, Helga Haftendorn und Volker von Prittwitz. Zum Dank verpflichtet bin ich dem Land Berlin, dem German Marshall Fund of the United States und der Volkswagen Stiftung, die die Forschungsarbeiten materiell unterstutzt haben. Die Arbeitsstelle Transatlantische Aussen-und Sicherheitspolitik am Fachbereich Politische Wissenschaft der Freien Universitat Berlin bot durch ihre Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen sowie die Mitglieder des Forschungsseminars einen frucht baren Diskussionszusammenhang fur die Erstellung der Arbeit. Am Institute of Arctic Studies am Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, fand ich in einer fruhen Phase der Arbeit an der Dissertation fur mehrere Monate freundliche Aufnahme als Gast und vor allem in Oran Young einen Gesprachspartner, dem ich fur seine Geduld und zahlreiche Anregungen dankbar bin. Wertvolle Recherchen ermoglichten mir die Inter nationale Seeschiffahrts-Organisation in London, die Internationale Wal fangkommission in Cambridge (Grossbritannien), das Bundesministerium fur Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit in Bonn und das Umwelt bundesamt in Berlin. Verschiedenen Mitarbeitern dieser Institutionen sowie mehrerer Umweltverbande gilt mein Dank zudem fur zahlreiche Gesprache."