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Jos Delbeke, Artur Runge-Metzger, Yvon Slingenberg and Jake Werksman

Introduction

Since their emergence from the Second World War, the Member States of the European Union have consistently preferred a multilateral approach to global problems, as is reflected through the EU’s support for the UN and for institutions like the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

The establishment of the European Union is another manifestation of that same commitment to multilateralism.

Since the publications of the Club of Rome¹ in the 1970s and more particularly since the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972, Europeans have been calling on the world to act together to halt and reverse environmental degradation.

Climate change is undoubtedly the most typical of global environmental problems, for which there is no solution without international cooperation. For these reasons, European countries have worked hard to find coordinated solutions through the UN, including most recent