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The Role of Regulatory Impact Assessment in Fighting Climate Change and the Economic Downturn: A EU-US Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Jacopo Torriti  and
Ragnar Lofstedt
Jacopo Torriti
Affiliation:
Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK
Ragnar Lofstedt
Affiliation:
King’s Centre of Risk Management, King’s College London, UK
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Abstract

In times of low economic growth and post-Copenhagen climate talks, a number of reasons for regulatory competition and cooperation between the United States and the European Union coexist. This paper discusses the role of Impact Assessment between the US and the EU on responses to the economic downturn and climate change. It is argued that, in the future, IAs will be an instrument through which it will be possible to read the level of cooperation and competition between the US and the EU, particularly on economic trade and environmental regulation.

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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 251 - 257
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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