The European Union as a leader in international climate change politics / edited by Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel and James Connelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : European Union political leadership in international climate change politics / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly -- The European Union as a global environmental policy actor : climate change / John Vogler -- The role of the Commission of the European Union : creating external coherence from internal diversity / Pamela M. Barnes -- The European Paliament and climate change : from symbolism to heroism and back again / Charlotte Burns and Neil Carter -- The Council, the European Council and international climate policy : from symbolic leadership to leadership by example / Sebastian Oberthür and Claire Dupont -- The United Kingdom : a paradoxical leader? / Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan -- France's troubled bids to climate leadership / Joseph Szarka -- German climate change policy : political and economic leadership / Martin Jänicke -- The Netherlands : a case of 'cost-free leadership' / Duncan Liefferink and Kathrin Kirkel -- Poland's climate change policy struggle : greening the East? / Karolina Jankowska -- Spanish, EU and international climate change policies : download, catch up, and curb down / Oriol Costa -- Business : the elephant in the room? / Wyn Grant -- Environmental NGOs : taking a lead? / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly -- A green new deal : framing US climate leadership / Guri Bang and Miranda A. Schreurs -- Towards a new world order for climate change : China and the European Union's leadership ambition / Xiudian Dai and Zhiping Diao -- Conclusion : the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics reassessed / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly.