Table of Contents

1. EU's climate leadership in a rapidly changing world Jos Delbeke and Peter Vis 2. EU ETS: Pricing carbon to drive cost-effective reductions across Europe Damien Meadows, Yvon Slingenberg and Peter Zapfel 3. Climate-related energy policies Jos Delbeke, Ger Klaassen and Stefaan Vergote 4. Framing Member States policies Jos Delbeke and Ger Klaassen 5. The EU and international climate change policy Jurgen Lefevere, Artur Runge-Metzger and Jake Werksman 6. Outlook Jos Delbeke and Peter Vis

About the Author

Jos Delbeke has been the Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action since its creation in 2010 (ongoing). He holds a Ph.D. in economics (Louvain, 1986) and lectures at the University of Louvain, Belgium, on European and international environmental policy. Peter Vis is the EU Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford (UK), for the academic year 2014-2015. Prior to that he was Head of Cabinet to Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action (2010-2014). He has an MA (history) from the University of Cambridge (UK).