Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2010

Tools for building EU climate concensus: Bringing the CEE Member States on board

Thomas Spencer, Anna Korppoo

May 2010

Finnish Institute for International Affairs

Abstract

Despite the lack of a global agreement in Copenhagen, momentum remains for the further development of EU climate policy, as indeed it does in many other countries. A 2010 Deutsche Bank report surveying the development of climate policies worldwide concluded that "...‘the race is on' for countries to achieve a green economy".