Review of Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro Van Asselt, Tim Rayner, and Frans Berkhout (Eds.) ‘Climate Change Policy in the European Union : Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?’

Since the latter part of the twentieth century, the subject of climate change has been on the agenda of governing bodies from supranational bodies such as the United Nations and the European Union to grassroots groups at the domestic and local levels worldwide, and in the United States. The issue is polarizing, and has served to widen the ideological gap between the North and the South, the “Developed” and the “Developing,” the “Rich” and the “Poor.” In the book, Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation? the authors skillfully weave a tapestry of “dilemmas” to bring home the stark and painfully obvious truth that actions to combat climate change are rendered impotent by competing domestic and international political interests