Sometimes policymakers have backed the wrong technologies, lacked ambition or simply not engaged with potential emissions reductions. Sonja van Renssen explores climate policies that have not delivered and why.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$29.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$209.00 per year
only $17.42 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Cowart, R., Bayer, E., Keay-Bright, S. & Lees, E. Carbon Caps and Efficiency Resources: Launching a “Virtuous Circle” for Europe (RAP, 2015); https://go.nature.com/2GXDoxv
Jones, D., Buck, M. & Sakhel, A. Energy Transition in the Power Sector in Europe: State of Affairs in 2017 (Sandbag & Agora Energiewende, 2018); https://go.nature.com/2q7bntQ
Wyns, T. & Axelson, M. Decarbonising Europe’s Energy Intensive Industries: The Final Frontier (Institute for European Studies, Vrije Univ, Brussel, 2016); https://www.ies.be/node/3698.
Valin, H. et al. The Land Use Change Impact of Biofuels Consumed in the EU: Quantification of Area and Greenhouse Gas Impacts (Ecofys, IIASA, E4tech, 2015); https://go.nature.com/2J07UnV.
Bundesnetzagentur Announces Successful Bids in First Auction for Offshore Wind Farms (Bundesnetzagentur, 2017); https://go.nature.com/2Ha9Ryp
Nuon Wins Permit for Dutch Offshore Wind Farm Without Subsidy (Netherlands Enterprise Agency, 2017); https://go.nature.com/2Iw0vg2
Non Paper on Complementary Economic Modelling Undertaken by DG ENER Regarding Different Energy Policy Scenarios Including Updated Renewable Energy Technology Costs in the Context of Council and Parliament Discussions of the Recast of the Renewable Energy Directive and the Revision of the Energy Efficiency Directive (European Commission, 2018).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The author declares no competing interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
van Renssen, S. The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Clim Change 8, 355–358 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4
This article is cited by
-
The “top-down” Kyoto Protocol? Exploring caricature and misrepresentation in literature on global climate change governance
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (2022)