The climate and energy policy faces a major challenge to limit climate change, to secure energy supplies by increased energy demand and at the same time to get out from the nuclear power technology. These parallel tasks must be solved by the European climate and energy policy. In particular, the...

This book investigates various kinds of climate change mitigation behaviour, which range from a general support of environmental policy to concrete energy-saving activities, in selected countries. Drawing on extensive national and international survey data, the analysis has the following main...