A União Europeia e a agenda internacional sobre mudanças climáticas : por trás das ambições do Pacto Ecológico Europeu

Abstract

The Anthropocene reinforces the interdependence between natural and social systems, requiring multilateral responses and redefinitions in international relations practices. Therefore, this paper analyses the European Green Deal (EGD) capacity to reflect the role of the European Union (EU) as a normative power in the global climate change agenda. Based on the theoretical framework of normative power proposed by Ian Manners, the study concentrates on the dimension of principles, seeking to understand the legitimacy, coherence and consistency within the scope of the EGD. The study traces the European Union's path in international climate governance, emphasising its role in promoting environmental agreements. In this context, the EGD represents the maturation of the EU's environmental and climate policies, being an ambitious initiative aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 under the promise of a just transition. However, the findings of the research - which placed the European Commission's Communication on the European Green Deal, an EU institutional document, in dialogue with the academic literature on the EGD - indicate important contradictions that weaken the EU as a normative power.