The European Union and Its Performance in the NPT Negotiations

Dee, Megan

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“…It requires comparing the EU's main policy objectives with the outcome of the international negotiations, irrespective of actual EU influence. While it may not be possible to exactly quantify the degree of goal achievement, we should at least be able to distinguish between low, medium, and high levels . We should take care, however, not to equate goal achievement with EU influence.…”

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The European Union and the Paris Agreement: leader, mediator, or bystander?

Oberthür

Groen

2016

WIREs Climate Change

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After its defeat at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, the EU can be considered to have scored a relative success with the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015. With the mitigation ambition of the agreement exceeding expectations, the EU realized its policy objectives to a greater extent than it may have anticipated itself. This success was made possible by a moderation of the EU’s policy objectives pursued proactively through an EU bridge‐building and coalition‐building strategy. It was enabled and facilitated by the great‐power politics between China and the US as well as the French Presidency of the Paris conference. With Paris, the EU thus appears to have consolidated its role as a ‘leadiator’ in international climate policy, which it took on after the failure of the Copenhagen conference and road‐tested for the first time in Durban in 2011. In a multipolar climate world, this new role model should remain relevant for the years to come. However, the unpredictability of the underlying internal and external political, economic, and technological dynamics suggests the wisdom of a regular review and adjustment of strategy. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e445. doi: 10.1002/wcc.445 This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > International Policy Framework

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