The Climate Policy of the European Union from the Framework Convention to the Paris Agreement

Abstract

This article presents the development of the climate policy of the European Union ( EU ) which is analysed in terms of the legal measures adopted to implement it. The main goal of the study is to verify the thesis that the EU climate policy which is expressed in EU law is part of the EU policy in the field of environmental protection. In order to verify this thesis, the study presents and analyses the major acts of the secondary legislation of the EU in the field of the climate. The study considers, in particular, the objectives of these acts, their Treaty bases and the main principles on which they are based.