EU Climate Power and the International Order

Flashcards covering the EU's role as a climate power, key environmental policies, energy security shifts since the Ukraine war, and major international climate summits.

IPCC Working Group 1 report (2021)

A report described by Guterres as a "code red for humanity," stating that greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are causing irreversible changes to the planet.

Energy Union

An EU framework aimed at diversifying energy sources, routes, and suppliers, particularly in gas, while promoting nuclear safety standards in third countries.

REPOWER EU

The EU's plan to phase out reliance on Russian gas following the Ukraine war by importing from other regions and investing in renewable sources.

Securitization of renewables

A shift identified by Goldthau and Youngs (2023) where renewable energy moves to the center of European security policy.

Renewables extractivism

A form of "EU green-realpolitik" characterized by policies focused on extracting renewable energy from third countries.

State interventionism

A shift in EU energy policy reflecting a changing overall European economic model through increased government involvement.

ERTA case (1971)

An ECJ legal judgement through which the Commission gained the capacity for external representation.

Vogler (2023) legislation statistic

The observation that upwards of $80$ per cent of member states' domestic environmental legislation is initiated by EU environmental directives.

Kyoto Protocol (1997)

A central development in the UNFCCC where the EU played a leading role in its signing.

COP15 (Copenhagen, 2009)

A climate summit seen as a failure for the EU, occurring alongside the global financial crisis and the rise of BRIC countries.

COP21 (Paris)

A successful summit where the EU leveraged its development power to help set an aspiration to constrain global mean temperature increase to $1.5^{\circ}C$.

EU green-realpolitik

A term describing a new policy orientation involving renewables extractivism from third countries.