Climate Change Mitigation and the European Union

Auteur

Valeria Tolis is Lecturer in Climate change governance at University of Leeds, UK. As a scholar of critical environmental politics, her research contributes to investigating the mechanisms that govern status quo and change in the production of environmental knowledge and in the formulation of environmental policies.

Texte du rabat

This book focuses on the European Union's (EU) climate change mitigation actions, developing a critical framework to the 2030 clean energy package and the 2050 long-term decarbonization strategy.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. The EU's climate action: policy at a critical juncture 3. Climate mitigation action and the EU: a Lacanian matter? 4. Climate change mitigation action: of knowledge and disavowal 5. Climate change mitigation action: the case of energy efficiency and renewables 6. the Lacanian case of the circular economy: a return of the repressed? 7. The Lacanian case of the (non) circular economy 8. Conclusions Bibliography Appendix Index