Climate policy in the EU: International regimes and policy diffusion

Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional Cooperation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-277

  Oberthür, Sebastian ^a   Tänzler, Dennis ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Adelphi Research   (Belgium)

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