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Climate change has taken centre stage in European and international politics. Since the second half of the 1980s, the EU has established itself as an international leader on climate change and has considerably improved its leadership record. The Union has significantly enhanced both its external representation and its internal climate policies. However, implementation and policy coherence, coordination of EU environmental diplomacy, an evolving international agenda, EU enlargement, and a still precarious EU unity remain major challenges. Shifts in underlying driving forces and advances of EU domestic climate and energy policies nevertheless support the expectation that the EU will remain a progressive force in international climate policy for some time. Adapted from the source document.

Front -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The EU's Internal and External Climate Policies: an Historical Overview -- The EU Emissions Trading System Revised (Directive 2009/29/EC) -- From Sharing the Burden to Sharing the Effort: Decision 406/2009/EC on Member State Emission Targets for non-ETS Sectors -- The EU's New Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) -- The Legal Framework for Carbon Capture and Storage in the EU (Directive 2009/31/EC) -- Mitigating CO2 Emissions from Cars in the EU(Regulation (EC) No 443/2009) -- The German Paradox: Climate Leader and Green Car Laggard -- Assessing EU Assistance for Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: a Southern Perspective -- The Sustainability of the EU's Model for Climate Diplomacy -- Russia and the International Climate Change Regime -- Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Energy Issues in the EU and the United States -- List of Contributors.