Climate Policy Integration into EU Energy Policy
Progress and prospects
Routledge Studies in Energy Policy Series

Climate change is a cross-cutting, long-term, global problem that presents policymakers with many challenges in their efforts to respond to the issue. Integrating climate policy objectives into the elaboration and agreement of policy measures in other sectors represents one promising method for ensuring coherent policies that respond adequately to the climate change challenge.

This book explores the integration of long-term climate policy objectives into EU energy policy. It engages in-depth empirical analysis on the integration of climate policy objectives into renewable energy policy; energy performance of buildings; and policies in support of natural gas importing infrastructure. The book describes insufficient levels of climate policy integration across these areas to achieve the long-term policy goals. A conceptual framework to find reasons for insufficient integration levels is developed and applied.

This book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics and policymakers interested in environmental, climate change and energy policy development in the EU, particularly from the perspective of long-term policy challenges. The book adds to scholarly literature on policy integration and EU integration, and contributes to new and developing research about EU decarbonisation.

1. Introduction 2. From environmental to climate policy integration 3. EU renewable energy policy 4. EU policy on the energy performance of buildings 5. EU policy on natural gas import infrastructure 6. Explaining climate policy integration: policy, politics, context and process 7. Conclusions

Claire Dupont is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for European Studies and the Political Science department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She works within the VUB’s Strategic Research Programme on ‘Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE)’.