Energy and Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads
Author: David Buchan
This book fills a major gap in subject matter and treatment. Few books have been written about the European Union’s energy policy, partly because its past development has been sporadic and lop-sided. But climate and energy security concerns have now given Europe the over-arching goal of moving away from imported fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy. This book covers the major re-design of European energy policy in 2007-9. Its style makes it accessible to a wider public perhaps aware that energy and climate change policy is increasingly being made in Brussels, but still puzzled as to how, or if, this policy’s various elements join up.
This book spans all the main EU policy elements of energy market reform, security of supply and emission reduction as well as nuclear power and the oft-neglected issues of energy R&D, efficiency and saving. Its distinctiveness lies in its angle of attack, focussing on policy trade-offs and conflicts in all these areas and asking what added value does, or should, the EU bring to the policies of its 27 member states. It argues the gap between EU potential and EU performance is widest in energy security and nuclear power, but may be narrowest on the most important issue of our time, controlling climate change.
1. Take-off
2. Trade-offs
3. Liberalization: try, try and try again
4. Market Abuse: the things some companies do
5. Governments behaving badly
6. Unbundling - unavoidable or unnecessary?
7. Confrontation or Compromise
8. Energy Security: the weakest link
9. Managing Relations with Russia
10. Rising to the Climate Change Challenge
11. Making Green Power Compulsory
12. Putting Trouble in Your Tank
13. Nuclear Power: the impossible consensus
14. Energy R(eluctance) and D(elay)
15. Doing Without
Conclusion. By David Buchan
David Buchan is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and editorial writer at Argus Media. He worked from 1970 to 2006 for the Economist and Financial Times in various posts abroad and in the UK including energy editor for the FT. In that capacity he was named business and finance writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2003 for a co-authored series on BP. A former FT bureau chief in Brussels, he has written several books on the EU.
Key features:
- One of the few comprehensive books on EU energy policy, and one of the first since the EU broadened its energy agenda in 2007-8.
- Assessment of what added value the EU can bring to member states' energy policies
- Analysis of the policy trade-offs between energy market reform, energy security and climate change.
- Highlights how the climate change challenge is not only transforming EU energy policy, but also creating an integrationist dynamic politically.
Review: FT Review
Review: EU Russia Centre Review
Review: IISS Review
April 2009
978-0-19-956990-8 |Hardback | OUP/OXFORD INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY STUDIES 200 pages, 234x156 mm
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