EU Climate Leadership After Paris: Rising to the Challenge

This discussion paper examines the European Union's role in climate leadership following the United States' decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the United Kingdom's decision to leave the EU.

• The European Union historically led efforts to combat climate change but currently faces various institutional, political, and economic hurdles, including the impact of Brexit.
• EU leadership is considered vital because current policies are insufficient to achieve the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global temperature increases to well below 2 degrees Celsius or the more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, especially given the US withdrawal.
• The paper explores options for the EU to reclaim its international leadership and strengthen the European project through the implementation of ambitious climate change policies.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2017). EU Climate Leadership After Paris: Rising to the Challenge. https://www.sei.org/publications/eu-climate-leadership-after-paris-rising-to-the-challenge/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. EU Climate Leadership After Paris: Rising to the Challenge. 2017. https://www.sei.org/publications/eu-climate-leadership-after-paris-rising-to-the-challenge/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2017climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{EU Climate Leadership After Paris: Rising to the Challenge}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2017}, month = oct, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/eu-climate-leadership-after-paris-rising-to-the-challenge/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }