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Haug, Constanze. and Jordan, Andrew. "Sharing burdens or distributing efforts? Negotiating emission reduction targets in the European Union." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, Feb 15, 2009 <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p311246_index.html>

Haug, C. C. and Jordan, A. , 2009-02-15 "Sharing burdens or distributing efforts? Negotiating emission reduction targets in the European Union." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-03-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p311246_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In international climate policy as much as in the EU multi-level system of governance, the question how to distribute emission reduction efforts among parties (or member states in the latter case) is a crucial precondition for successful and ambitious climate policy. As in the global climate arena, burden sharing requires policy-makers to strike a balance between prescribing emission abatement where it is most cost-effective, while taking account of largely diverging national circumstances and social and economic development objectives. With the accession of 12 new member states, these questions have only become more salient in the EU, to the degree that one may consider the European Community as a microcosm which may anticipate some of the future global debates on climate policy. As Lacasta et al. (2006) state, the EU might even “become a testing ground for policy development and negotiation challenges of increasingly complex and differentiated future global climate developments.” In this vein, how EU policy-makers have addressed questions related to burden-sharing may yield valuable lessons also for the broader evolution of the global climate regime. The EU has had not one, but several stabs at developing a durable burden sharing arrangement. The first dates back to 1991/1992, when the European Commission tabled a proposal prior to the signing of the FCCC, but failed in the face of Member State resistance. A second attempt in 1996/1997, mainly orchestrated by the Dutch Presidency in early 1997, eventually produced an agreement prior to the Kyoto summit, but subsequently even this had to be re-adjusted (see Chapter 3). The burden sharing issue reared its head a third time in 2007-8 when the Commission started to prepare its 20-20-20 package. In early 2008, as part of its ‘climate policy package’, the EU Commission published a draft decision in early 2008, outlining an approach and proposing emission reduction targets for Member states in order to implement the unilateral EU objective of a 20 percent (or 30 percent in case of an international agreement) emission cut by 2020. After protracted negotiations on the package, it was finally adopted in December 2008, including the new ‘effort sharing’ Decision. This paper analyses and compares the key dynamics and outcomes of decision-making on burden-sharing in the 1990s with the recently concluded effort-sharing negotiations, based on literature review and a series of interviews with policy-makers and experts. Conclusions point to the following: The basic dynamics of the negotiations, opposing wealthier and poorer member states in the EU, have not changed much between the 1990s and today, whereas key actors have to some extent: the newly acceded countries have taken over the role of the ‘cohesion countries’ in the 1990s, which themselves ‘graduated’ into taking over more responsibility as middle income countries. The European Commission has markedly increased its agenda-setting capacity in an enlarged Community, providing evidence to Europeanisation tendencies in climate policy. The grounding of member state targets in economic models has in both cases increased their acceptability, although final decisions are still most likely taken in a negotiations setting. Finally, while the 1998 agreement embraced both efficiency and equity considerations, the pending effort-sharing proposal is exclusively based on equity criteria, with efficiency being a major driver of other parts of the proposed climate package.

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