Researcher(s):
Michaela Koke
ENVS course(s): 400 Initiated: September 2015 Completed: April 2016 Go to project site
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This project is my Senior Capstone and Thesis. This is a brief description (also found on my Capstone Record):
"This thesis will explore burden sharing within the European Union in an attempt to answer whether burden sharing could be exported to areas outside of the EU, or even internationally. To do this, I am examining Germany's role in EU burden sharing. Germany has been a driving force to the EU's pursuit of strong emissions targets and Germany itself took on the largest emission cuts through the Burden Sharing Agreement (BSA). Their targets accounted for 80% of the EU's emission reductions under Kyoto. My thesis asks why Germany would agree to this, in an attempt to understand the motivations of the biggest emitter and largest economy in the EU. Through this question, I will also discuss what aspects of the EU have allowed for the BSA to be successful thereby bringing me closer to answering the broader question of, “Is burden sharing exportable?”"