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The EU has made a point of leading negotiations on climate change. It repeatedly presents itself to the world and the citizens of member states as the champion of the fight against global warming. Nevertheless, the role of the EU in climate negotiations has not been without changes and setbacks, as the conditions that made its leadership possible no longer obtain—has and this has been so for a decade now. In effect, changes in the power structure have had all throughout this decade a particularly acute effect on climate negotiations. In this chapter the argument will be made that, after having attempted entrenchment until 2009, the EU chose to accommodate the new strategic situation.
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Costa, O. (2016). Beijing After Kyoto? The EU and the New Climate in Climate Negotiations. In: Barbé, E., Costa, O., Kissack, R. (eds) EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54758-3_6
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