EU Environmental Governance: from Addressing Acute Environmental Threats to Coping with Climate Change
22 February 2010, Singapore - Ingmar von Homeyer
In this presentation Ecologic Senior Fellow Ingmar von Homeyer provided an overview of the development of EU environmental governance from the early 1970s up to the present. He argued that EU environmental governance can be described as an amalgam of four to five environmental governance regimes which have successively been layered on top of each other over the past 35 years.
The evolution of EU environmental governance began with the “environment regime” which was later complemented by the “Internal Market regime”, the “integration regime”, the “sustainable development regime”, and the emerging "climate regime". These governance regimes can be distinguished in terms of their prevailing overall political priorities, legal foundations, decision-making methods, types of legitimating justification, underlying political dynamics, types of environmental objectives, and instruments. Despite certain modifications, each of the regimes can still be discerned in today’s system of EU environmental governance.
The presentation is available for download [pdf, 644 KB, English].
Keywords: environmental governance, environmental policy, European Union, sustainable development, regulation, EU Treaty
Speaker: Ingmar von Homeyer
Event title: Regional Environmental Co-operation in EU and ASEAN
Organiser: Institute for Security & Development Policy, Sweden; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Date: 22 February 2010
Location: Singapore
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