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The EU aspires to lead global action on climate change to 2020 and beyond. It has achieved a great deal in pursuit of this goal, including the establishment of an EU-wide emissions trading scheme. There have nonetheless been challenges and setbacks as well. This lecture will explore the EU’s successes and setbacks alike and examine steps being taken by the EU to address the challenges arising. Among other thing, the lecture will consider the EU’s attempts to extend the global reach of its climate change law, by bringing ‘foreign emissions’ within the scope of its ‘domestic’ law.

Joanne Scott has been Professor of European Law at University College London since 2005. She taught previously at the University of Cambridge and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. Her work focuses on new modes of governance, environmental law and policy and on the intersections between different sub-national, national and international legal orders. She was recently awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for her research on the global reach of EU climate change law (2012-2014). She was a member of the UCL/Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change and of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (2009-2011). She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.