EurActiv: Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol was a major diplomatic success for the EU, but the bloc’s leadership role in international negotiations over a post-2012 climate agreement hinges on the implementation of its climate action and renewable energy package, argue Louise Van Schaik and Karel Van Hecke in an Egmont (Royal Institute for International Relations) paper. The December publication claims that climate policy may be the only EU policy where the “internal and external dimensions are so …