Climate change and energy transition : is our ‘energy union’ challenged by new needs of burden-sharing solidarity?

Abstract

The EU is committed to achieving significant decarbonisation of its economy by 2050. Hard choices need to be made about how much individual Member States and sectors should be required to contribute to the attainment of this. These issues come to the fore both in relation to the EU’s pioneering emissions trading scheme and in respect of its effort-sharing decision. This panel will examine the nature of the EU’s mitigation ambitions and the ways in which the ‘burden’ (or opportunities) are and should be distributed between Member States and sectors.