Description: I The EU and Leadership in International Climate and Environmental Regimes: Learning from Experience.- 1. Climate change, leadership and the EU.- 2. Leadership.- 3. The complicated development of EU climate policy.- 4. The role of the EU in climate negotiations.- 5. Perceptions of the EU's role.- 6. The EU in international environmental regimes and the Energy Charter Treaty.- II Socio-Economic Analysis of Climate Policy Strategies.- 7. Socio-economics of policy formation and choices.- 8. The economics of coalition formation.- 9. Issue linkages to the sustainability agenda.- 10. Economic dimensions of the Kyoto Protocol.- III Implementing EU Commitments on Climate Change.- 11. Competence and subsidiarity.- 12. Emission reductions in EU countries.- 13. Implementing EU Commitments under Kyoto.- IV Global Strategies and Scenarios.- 14. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the EU.- 15. Leadership scenarios.- 16. Implementing European leadership.- References.- Annex I: Target differentiation and the 'European Bubble'.

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