Agenda‐setting, policy formulation, and the EU institutional context: The case of the Just Transition Fund

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An Entrepreneurial Perspective on the Transition of Lignite Rural Areas to a New Regime within a Suffocating Timeframe

“…These findings resemble those from other studies in the international literature. Research shows that a fair and effective transition requires support for entrepreneurship in the regions that participated in mining in order to contribute to socioeconomic sustainable development and the creation of quality jobs (Filipović et al 2022;Henriques et al 2022;Krawchenko and Gordon 2021;Leppänen and Liefferink 2022). This gap in trust between Greek businessmen and the banking system has also appeared in other research (Apostolopoulos et al 2021(Apostolopoulos et al , 2022.…”

How ideas shape the EU's climate policy: Moving toward the sufficiency paradigm for the EU ETS

“…The final agreement included increased uptake of allowances in the MSR and the possibility to delete allowances, both measures decreasing the number of allowances on the market (Delreux & Laloux, 2018; Jevnaker & Wettestad, 2017; Sorhus et al, 2017). In 2018 the European Parliament suggested that a Just Transition Fund was needed on top of the modernization fund to handle the risk of unemployment following the green transition (Leppänen & Liefferink, 2022). From 2014, there was less focus by the European Commission and the Parliament on linking the EU ETS with other markets, and solutions regarding competitiveness were solved within the EU through solidarity measures.…”

“…In 2019 another instrument on top of the EU ETS was, as noted above, first introduced to address the higher climate ambitions in EU climate policy, namely CBAM (Bongardt & Torres, 2022; von Homeyer et al, 2022). The European Commission now built on the proposal of Just Energy Transition Fund from the European Parliament in 2018 as a way to get support from some of the Eastern European countries (Leppänen & Liefferink, 2022). There was no longer an ambition to connect the EU ETS with the rest of the world by the European Commission.…”

The European Council, Council and Member States: jostling for influence

“…Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the issue of rising gas and oil prices. The Commission's 2020 review of Member States' National Energy and Climate Plans did prominently flag up the need for a 'just transition', which will require significant EU funding especially for coal-dependent Member States such as Poland, as a precondition for the EU's successful transition to climate neutrality by 2050 (European Commission, 2020; see also Bürgin, Chapter 2 in this volume; Leppänen and Liefferink, 2022).…”