Learning from Europe on Climate Change

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Stuart Wolpert, ‘Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report’, ScienceDaily.com, 9 October 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008152242.htm. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Summary for Policymakers, pp. 2–3. For more on the precautionary principle and EU climate policy, see John R. Schmidt, ‘Why Europe Leads on Climate Change’, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 50, no. 4, August–September 2008, pp. 83–96. Nicholas Stern, The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). ‘Europeans Attitudes Towards Climate Change’, Special Eurobarometer 313, July 2009, http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_313_en.pdf. Pew Research Center for People and the Press, ‘Modest Support for “Cap and Trade” Policy: Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming’, 22 October 2009, http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/556.pdf. Treaty of Lisbon, Title XX: Energy, Article 176A (2), 2007/C 306/01, available at http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/full_text/index_en.htm. European Environment Agency, ‘EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall for Third Consecutive Year’, Press release, 29 May 2009, http://www.eea.europa.eu/pressroom/newsreleases/2009-greenhouse-inventory-report. ‘National Inventory Report: Greenhouse Gases Sources and Sinks 1990–2007’, Submission by Greenhouse Gas Division, Environment Canada, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, April 2009. Ben Furnas, ‘We Must Seize the Energy Opportunity or Slip Further Behind: A Primer on Global Competition in Green Technology Investments’, Center for American Progress, 20 April 2009. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew HollandAndrew Holland is Programme Manager and Research Associate for the Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security at the IISS.