CECILIA2050 Country Report: The European Union

This country level report is part of report series that has the objective to perform an initial ‘stock-take’ of the climate policy instrument mix at EU and Member State level. In line with the other reports of the series (that focus on eight EU Member States: the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom), this report groups the existing policies at EU level into four main categories, or policy landscapes: carbon pricing, energy efficiency, renewable energy and non-CO2 gases.

In the different chapters of the report the respective instruments of each policy landscape are described in detail and their interactions within each of the policy landscapes are identified. In a next step, the policy landscapes are evaluated using a specific definition of what constitutes optimal climate policy, which was developed in a previous CECILIA2050 report (What constitutes an optimal climate policy mix? Defining the concept of optimality, including political and legal framework conditions). In addition, the report also evaluates how the four different policy landscapes interact with each other.

 

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Citation: 

Drummond, Paul. 2013. Country Report: The European Union. Contribution to CECILIA2050 Deliverable 1.2: Review of the existing instrument mix at EU level and in selected Member States. London: University College London. 

Funding: 

European Commission

Authors: 

Paul Drummond, University College London

Year of publication: 

2013

Number of pages: 

113

Table of contents: 

0

Executive summary

6

1

Description of policy landscapes

8

1.1

Classification of the instruments previously selected into policy landscapes

8

1.2

Detailed description of instruments within each policy landscape

9

1.2.1

Carbon Pricing

10

1.2.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

21

1.2.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

49

1.2.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gas Emissions

59

1.3

Identification of interactions of instruments within each policy landscape

68

1.3.1

Carbon Pricing

68

1.3.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

69

1.3.3

Promotion of Renewable Energy

71

1.3.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gas Emissions

73

1.4

Description and evaluation of policy landscapes in the light of the concept of optimality developed in task 1.1

75

1.4.1

Carbon Pricing

75

1.4.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

76

1.4.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

78

1.4.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gas Emissions

79

2

Description and initial evaluation of the overall instrument mix

80

2.1

Identification and description of the main interactions between policy landscapes

80

2.2

Summary discussion of the combination of policy landscapes (the overall instrument mix) against each one of the elements of the concept of optimality

85

3

Conclusions

91

4

References

93