Table of Contents

Preface * Towards a long-term European strategy on climate change policy * Long-term goals and post-2012 commitments: where do we go from here with climate policy? * Between the USA and the South: strategic choices for European climate policy * The role of technological development and policies in a post-Kyoto climactic regime * Post-Kyoto climate policy targets: costs and competitiveness implications * Post-2012 climate action in the broad framework of sustainable development policies: the role of the EU * The EU and future climate policy: is mainstreaming adaptation a distraction or part of the solution? * Towards climate policy integration in the EU: evolving dilemmas and opportunities * Rationalities for adaptation in EU climate change policies *

About the Author

Bert Metz leads the Global Environmental Assessment Division at RIVM, the National Institute for Public Health & the Environment, the Netherlands. He is also co-chairman of IPCC Working Group III (climate change mitigation).
Mike Hulme is Exec Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK.
Editor-in-chief of Climate Policy is Michael Grubb, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and Associated Director of Policy at the Carbon Trust, UK