Climate Change Mitigation and the European Union

This book focuses on the European Union’s (EU) climate change mitigation actions, developing a critical framework for the 2030 Clean energy for all Europeans package and the 2050 long-term decarbonisation strategy, which informed the European Green Deal. Reflecting on the possibility of real change and transition, the author develops a Lacanian-based discourse analysis which reflects on agentic capacities and assesses both the status quo and changes in the discourse. Informed by extensive fieldw