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Experts generally concur that the EU has led many aspects of debate on climate change. While Europe is far from being the flawless performer on climate change that it is sometimes portrayed as, it is certainly the case that EU climate change and broader environmental policies have progressed significantly in recent years. This is the strand of overall energy policy that has received most attention and gathered most momentum. Indeed, the worry is that EU energy policy has become overwhelmingly a climate change policy. It is in consequence insufficiently ‘securitised’.