Institution‐Building from Below and Above: The European Community in Global Environmental Politics

Sbragia, Alberta M.

doi:10.1093/0198294646.003.0010

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“…Other scholars have also begun to document the EU's input to sustainability policy making at the international level (Lightfoot and Burchell, 2004;Oberthur, 1999;Sbragia, 2005). However, the literature on the outside or 'external' dimensions of sustainability remains rather sparse (but see Coffey and Baldock, 2003;Amalric and Stocchetti, 2001).…”

Section: S Ustainable Development Is a Quintessentially Cross-cuttingmentioning

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Sustainable development ‘outside’ the European Union: what role for impact assessment?

2006

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Sustainable development is a cross-cutting issue par excellence that necessitates a very high degree of policy coordination. This is especially true considering that the European Union's 2001 Sustainable Development Strategy demands that all European Union (EU) policies actively support the sustainable development of other countries, particularly those in the developing world. In order to fulfil this ambitious obligation, the EU has pledged to consider the impacts that all new policies have within and outside the EU as part of a new impact assessment (IA) regime. This paper aims to evaluate how well the new IA regime has helped address the 'external' dimensions of sustainability through the analysis of potential effects of EU policies on non-EU countries. It finds that the IA procedure does not currently function as an effective instrument for the implementation of the Union's commitment to promoting sustainability in the developing world. Other coordination mechanisms need to be considered, given the horizontal and vertical complexity of this challenge. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. Received 1 June 2005; revised 2 November 2005; accepted 16 November 2005Keywords: policy coordination; European Union; networks; impact assessment; sustainable development; developing countries Introduction S USTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS A QUINTESSENTIALLY CROSS-CUTTING ISSUE THAT NECESSITATES A HIGHdegree of policy coordination. It certainly does not fit neatly into any of the established remits of individual sectors or agencies. Sustainable development is, of course, now a fundamental goal of the European Union (EU) (Jordan, 2005). This includes certain social, environmental and economic objectives within the Union, but also makes it necessary to take into account the effect of EU policies on the ability of other countries to develop sustainably. The EU Sustainable Development Strategy recognizes this obligation and demands that all EU policies 'must actively support efforts by other * Correspondence to: Camilla Adelle, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. E-mail: c.opoku@uea.ac.uk 58 C. Adelle et al.countries -particularly those in the developing world -to achieve development that is more sustainable ' (COM (2001) 264, p. 9). The EU has argued that it is 'well placed to assume a leading role in the pursuit of global sustainable development ' (COM (2001) 264, p. 6).This link between the external and the internal dimensions of sustainability represents a hugely ambitious policy objective, which sets the EU apart from other broadly comparable political entities such as the United States (US) (Vogel, 2005). The EU has made numerous, if not always successful, attempts to address internal environmental issues such as pollution and biodiversity loss, as well as problems such as climate change and ozone depletion that have global consequences (Coffey and Baldock, 2003;Jordan, 2005). ...

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Section: S Ustainable Development Is a Quintessentially Cross-cuttingmentioning

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Sustainable development ‘outside’ the European Union: what role for impact assessment?

2006

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“…But globalization can also exert pressure directly on EC organizations. For example, the involvement of the EC in global environmental negotiations has strengthened expansion of Commission competencies and roles (Sbragia 1996).…”

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European integration and supranational governance

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Sandholtz

1997

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…The path towards external recognition has often been a struggle for the EC. The complicated division of competences, the transfer of competences, the lack of precedents for the role of the EU and the uncertainty this has generated among the negotiation partners were considered as the main causes for this struggle (Sbragia, 1998). However, it seems that the struggle has been won, as the recognition question is not really an issue anymore in international negotiations (Vogler, 1999).…”

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The European Union in international environmental negotiations: a legal perspective on the internal decision-making process

Delreux

2006

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Institution‐Building from Below and Above: The European Community in Global Environmental Politics

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Sustainable development ‘outside’ the European Union: what role for impact assessment?

Sustainable development ‘outside’ the European Union: what role for impact assessment?

European integration and supranational governance

The European Union in international environmental negotiations: a legal perspective on the internal decision-making process

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