European Union External Environmental Policy: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts the EU’s attempts to shape environmental governance beyond its borders. Key questions addressed include: What environmental norms, rules and policies does the EU seek to promote outside its territory? What types of activities does the EU engage in to pursue these objectives? How successful is the EU in achieving its external environmental policy objectives? What factors explain the degree to which the EU attains its goals? The book will be of interest to students and academics as well as practitioners in governments (both inside and outside of the EU), the EU institutions, think tanks, and research institutes.

Camilla Adelle is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has a particular interest in the EU’s pursuit of sustainable development beyond its borders, especially in Africa.

Diarmuid Torney is Lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research focuses on the comparative and global politics of climate change and energy, with a particular focus on the EU, China, and India.

Katja Biedenkopf is Assistant Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research centres on the external effects of EU environmental and climate policies, global environmental governance and climate diplomacy.