The EU in contemporary global environmental governance: a complementary outside-in and inside-out approach

The research conducted in Montreal focuses on studying the role of the European Union (EU) in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through an innovative outside-in mapping. Three dimensions of the EU’s role are examined: its environmental ambition, leadership and diplomatic activity. The project is innovative because of a twofold reason. First, counterbalancing the literature’s dominant focus on climate change, it focuses on the EU’s role in less politicized, yet important, international environmental treaty regimes. Second, the project evaluates the EU’s role based on non-EU centric evaluations by observers of the EU’s role, i.e. the outside-in approach. Original empirical data is collected through interviews with officials working at the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity who witnessed the EU’s role. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Mérand

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Partner:

Université Catholique de Louvain

Discipline:

Sociology

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Education

University:

Université de Montréal

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