The COVID-19 pandemic and the EU : from a sustainable energy transition to a green transition?

Crnčec, Danijel (avtor), Penca, Jerneja (avtor), Lovec, Marko (avtor)

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.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: energy transition, green energy, covid-19, epidemic, EU energy Policy, COVID-19 recovery, green transition, European green deal, ‘do no significant harm’ principle, EU biodiversity policy
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: 11 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 175, art. 113453
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-144417
• UDK: 620.9
• ISSN pri članku: 0301-4215
• DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113453
• COBISS.SI-ID: 141177091
• Datum objave v RUL: 21.02.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Energy policy
• Skrajšan naslov: Energy policy
• Založnik: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0301-4215
• COBISS.SI-ID: 7272453

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Najbolj omejujoča licenca Creative Commons. Uporabniki lahko prenesejo in delijo delo v nekomercialne namene in ga ne smejo uporabiti za nobene druge namene.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: energetski prehod, zelena energija, covid-19, epidemija

Projekti

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: J5-2562
• Naslov: Prenos norm v EU in Sloveniji - ocena napredka k okoljski in trajnostni preobrazbi