Makuch, Karen E.; Makuch, Zen --- "Domestic Initiatives in the UK" [2008] ELECD 422; in Faure, Michael; Peeters, Marjan (eds), "Climate Change and European Emissions Trading" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008)

Book Title: Climate Change and European Emissions Trading

Editor(s): Faure, Michael; Peeters, Marjan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847208989

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Domestic Initiatives in the UK

Author(s): Makuch, Karen E.; Makuch, Zen

Number of pages: 40

Extract:

10. Domestic initiatives in the UK
Karen E. Makuch and Zen Makuch1

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's (hereinafter
`UK') legal and policy initiatives at the domestic level designed to address
climate change and meet EU and international commitments are ubiquitous.
They span the range of conventional environmental instrument categories
including: command and control regulations; market-based instruments and
negotiated agreements. The UK also produced a world first with a national
economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme (ETS). This chapter
discusses several of the climate policy initiatives that have been, are or will
imminently be employed in the UK. The UK comprises the four constituent
parts of England, Scotland, Wales (the grouping to which the political term
Great Britain is attributed) and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom has
been a centralized, unitary state for much of its history, and environmental law
and policy developments within the UK tend to be similar throughout each of
its constituent parts. The focal point of this work is largely on initiatives within
England and Wales, the larger and arguably more politically dominant
constituency.
Given the ubiquity of domestic initiatives, there is a key critical point
worthy of detailed scrutiny. It concerns the following question: Is there policy
cohesion (i.e., joined-up thinking in policy design/implementation) in relation
to climate change policy instruments? This is an issue that we have examined
in this chapter in relation to five key instruments pertaining to emissions trad-
ing, ...