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Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Key Instrument of Global Environmental Governance

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European Union External Environmental Policy

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This chapter examines the EU’s overall support for multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) as a key instrument of global environmental governance. It discusses how the EU participates in international negotiation processes in the context of MEAs by investigating the formal provisions as well as the informal practices. This is illustrated with a case study on the EU’s participation in the negotiation of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Finally, the chapter analyses the EU’s effectiveness by assessing and explaining the extent to which the EU is actually able to impact upon MEA negotiations.

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  1. Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Tom Delreux

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  1. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Camilla Adelle

  2. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Katja Biedenkopf

  3. School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland

    Diarmuid Torney

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Delreux, T. (2018). Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Key Instrument of Global Environmental Governance. In: Adelle, C., Biedenkopf, K., Torney, D. (eds) European Union External Environmental Policy. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60931-7_2

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