The External Environmental Policy of the European Union

This collection of essays comprehensively and systematically analyzes the various instruments and innovative approaches through which the EU is forging its external environmental policy, the legal implications of its multifaceted practice and interactions with international environmental law. It explains the legal and institutional framework for EU external action on environmental protection and sustainable development, identifying the changes introduced, and challenges posed, by the Lisbon Treaty. It explores key tools and trends in defining and implementing EU external policy across a broad range of environmental issues, as well as linkages with trade and human rights. It also assesses the reciprocal influences between the development and implementation of EU environmental law and of international environmental law.Introduction; Part I. The EU Legal and Institutional Framework After Lisbon: 1. The formalities and substance of EU external environmental competence: stuck between climate change and competitiveness H. H. B. Vedder; 2. Coherence and EU external environmental policy M. Cremona; 3. The post-Lisbon institutions and EU external environmental policy C. Damro; 4. The EU's representation in multilateral environmental negotiations after Lisbon M. Buck; 5. A Member State's perspective on the post-Lisbon framework for the EU's representation in multilateral environmental negotiations J. Thomson; Part II. Insights Into EU Practice: 6. Climate change in EU external relations: please follow my example (or I might force you to) K. Kulovesi; 7. EU external action on forests: FLEGT and the development of international law A. Savaresi; 8. Environmental integration in EU trade policy: the Generalised System of Preferences, trade sustainability impact assessments and free trade agreements R. Zvelc; 9. Environmental integration in EU development cooperation: responding to international commitments or its own policy priorities? G. Marin Duran; 10. The trajectory of EU biodiversity cooperation: supporting environmental multilateralism through EU external action E. Morgera; Part III. The EU and International Environmental Law: 11. The human rights dimension of environmental protection in EU external relations post-Lisbon D. Augenstein; 12. The EU and compliance mechanisms of multilateral environmental agreements: the case of the Aarhus Convention A. Ali; 13. Joint responsibility between the EU and Member States for non-performance of obligations under multilateral environmental agreements A. Nollkaemper; 14. Controversial aspects of the interaction between international and EU law in environmental matters: direct effect and Member States' unilateral measures R. Pavoni; Conclusions E. Morgera.