from a sustainable energy transition to a green transition?
Danijel Crnčec (Author), Jerneja Penca (Author), Marko Lovec (Author)

Abstract

The article examines the implications held by the EU's response to the COVID-19 pandemic for the green transition as set by the European Green Deal. It distinguishes changes in: (a) the use of policy instruments; (b) governance principles; and (c) the prioritising of policy goals as expressed via the conceptual framework of orders of change. The article assesses the extent of these changes as well as the patterns and regional variations among EU Member States, together with the Commission's role in pushing for preferential energy policy choices and encouraging the Member States' ambitions. The analysis shows the EU Energy Union governance framework was promoting the EU's climate targets' full integration into the EU's energy transition policy instruments (first order of change) even before the European Green Deal. Still, the EU's response to the COVID-19 crisis created strong financial and policy leverage to accelerate the green transition and gave an opportunity to close the gap between less ambitious and more ambitious EU countries. Many countries traditionally reliant on EU funds seized this opportunity, demonstrating the role of changed governance principles (the second order of change). However, the crisis has had an evolutionary impact, not a revolutionary one. While coherence between the energy and climate goals remains high, the EU's energy transition is falling short in fully integrating biodiversity (which would constitute a full paradigmatic, third-order change), despite this being an essential component of the EU's green transition.

Keywords

energy;energy policy;energetski prehod;zelena energija;covid-19;epidemija;

Data

Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UL FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
UDC: 620.9
COBISS: 141177091 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 0301-4215
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Secondary language: Slovenian
Secondary keywords: Trajnost (ekologija);Energetski razvoj;
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: str. 1-11
Volume: ǂart. ǂ113453
Issue: ǂVol. ǂ175
Chronology: 2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113453
ID: 18060294
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