Over the last decade, EU policy has employed both an
indirect, context-shaping approach to climate security, which focuses more on process than output, and a protective-autonomy approach, which focuses on multiple defensive approaches to safeguard the EU’s geopolitical interests.
In putting these approaches into practice, the EU has advanced a rich profusion of climate security initiatives; diplomats certainly do not need to be told that “climate policy is foreign policy,” as they have been working on this assumption for more than a decade. Moreover, the EU’s approach has positioned the bloc well to play a constructive role in climate geopolitics. However, the union’s overall approach to climate security has been relatively narrow. It has built select climate elements into its existing security strategies rather than rethinking what security itself entails in a world challenged by widespread ecological disruptions.
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May 14th, 2021 Heritage scholars regularly testify before Congress. Pictured are Lora Ries and Nick Loris who both recently testified to Congressional committees.
Heritage Foundation scholars are helping our leaders find solutions to some of the biggest issues confronting America and the world. Heritage experts regularly testify before Congress, and recently Lora Ries, Brent Sadler, and Nick Loris all appeared before lawmakers.
Loris, deputy director of Heritage’s Roe Institute and Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow in energy and environmental policy, testified to the House Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber at a hearing titled “Restoration of the Transatlantic Dialogue: The Global Fight Against Climate Change.”
The answer might be yes. and no. The European Parliament’s May 20 resolution freezing any consideration of a long-awaited Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) with China, along with advocacy of a strengthened European Union screening regulations on foreign investment and increased cooperation with the United States on a
Transatlantic Dialogue on China, certainly seemed to symbolize a changed European attitude toward China.
A container ship from China Shipping Line is loaded at the main container port in Hamburg, Germany, on Aug. 13, 2007. Northern Germany, with its busy ports of Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Kiel, is a hub of international shipping. Hamburg is among Europe s largest ports. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
After March 22, Beijing pulled out all the stops against the Europeans, as Chinese official statements and state media irately called the Germans ‘Nazis’.
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