Environmental policy

Question 1

What is Polluter pays principle?

Answer 1

the one responsible for harming the environment is responsible for the costs of fixing it.

Question 2

What is Environmental Policy?

Answer 2

Rules and plans to address environmental issues. It includes regulations on pollution, conservation, and sustainable practices

Question 3

What is the European Green Deal?

Answer 3

A set of initiatives by the European Union to make the continent environmentally sustainable. It focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting clean energy, and creating a circular economy.
- The goal is to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050.
- Invest more than 1 trillion euros

Question 4

What is Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?

Answer 4

Are living organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been altered or modified in a way that does not occur naturally through mating or natural recombination.

Question 5

What is European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)?

Answer 5

A system where companies in the European Union buy and sell permits to emit greenhouse gases.

Question 6

What does Alienate mean?

Answer 6

Transfer ownership of (property rights) to another person or group.

Question 7

What does it mean to have Shared competence?

Answer 7

Both the EU and the national authority, have the responsibility.
Environment is a shared competence.

Question 8

What is Policy integration?

Answer 8

About making sure different policies fit well together and don’t work against each other.

Question 9

What is preventative principle?

Answer 9

Being proactive and taking measures to avoid potential harm rather than waiting for clear evidence of damage.

Question 10

What is Precautionary principle?

Answer 10

Is a safety approach that says if an action or policy might harm the public or the environment and if there is scientific uncertainty, in the face of potential risks, precautionary measures should be taken.

Question 11

What is the Ecological modernization?

Answer 11

The commissions idea that you can have economical growth and environmental improvement via technology

Question 12

What is Sustainable development?

Answer 12

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 13

What is Market Failure, when focusing on Sustainability?

Answer 13

If a factory pollutes but doesn’t have to pay for the damage

Question 14

What are some tools to stop emissions?

Answer 14

1. Command and control measures (bans, limits, restrictions)
2. Subsidies (for having renewable energy sources)

Question 15

What is the “fit for 55”

Answer 15

a plan designed to reduce the European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.

Question 16

What is the Cap-and-trade system?

Answer 16

The government sets a “cap” on how much pollution is allowed. Companies get permits for their emissions, and if they emit less, they can sell their extra permits to those exceeding the limit.

Question 17

What does the Paris Agreement say?

Answer 17

Aims to limit the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Question 18

What view does Neo-classical/orthodox have on this?

Answer 18

Only through economic growth is it possible to
pay for environmental clean-up – Emphasis on
technological development

Question 19

What is a critique of the Green deal?

Answer 19

The amount invested is way lower than the money invested in saving the banks under the financial crisis in 2008

Question 20

Environmental policy in the EU suffers from what?

Answer 20

Difficulties in making sure all member countries fully follow through and apply these policies effectively.