“…in Germany (Boie et al, 2016;Hochmeyer and Bohm, 2015;Nagl et al, 2011;Schmid and Knopf, 2012;Scholz et al, 2014), the Netherlands (Benders et al, 2011), France (Ze Ya, 2016), the UK (Brand et al, 2012). Van Sluisveld et al (2017) propose a systemic approach to analyse the European lowcarbon strategies towards 2050, comparing ex-ante policy evaluation studies and national planning processes. They investigate the differences in country strategies by comparing the long-term planning processes of five EU countries (Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK).…”