Climate-change induced uncertainties, risks and opportunities for the coal-based region of Silesia: Stakeholders' perspectives

Skoczkowski, Tadeusz; Bielecki, S.; Kochański, Maksymilian; Korczak, Katarzyna

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2019.06.001

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“…Decarbonisation in the I&S industry may have a far-reaching impact on other industries, e.g. the global coal demand, and, consequently, poses societal problems in heavy steel and coal-dependent regions (“fair transition”) [ 123 , 173 ]. Alongside efficiency improvements, this means that coal use in the I&S industry declines by around 50 million Mtce 9 by 2040 [ 174 ].…”

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Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

Skoczkowski

Verdolini

Bielecki

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Energy

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Decarbonisation of the iron and steel (I&S) industry is crucial in the efforts to meet the EU GHG emission reduction objectives in 2030 … 2050. Promoting decarbonisation in this sector will necessarily require the identification, development, and diffusion of breakthrough technologies for I&S production. This paper uses an approach inspired by the Technology Innovation System (TIS) to analyse the development of technology in the EU I&S industry and identify potential avenues of its decarbonisation. We have described key elements of the TIS, analyse the functioning of these elements and their interactions in a more general context of innovation dynamics and policy design; The focus has been put on the role of actors and the identification of the main specific blocking and inducement mechanism in the TIS to better explain its functioning. Risks and uncertainties have also been discussed. We argue that deep decarbonisation in the I&S industry is feasible but its TIS requires firm support, mostly political, to finance intensive R&D and reduce the business risk. To this end, all actors shall support more effectively the invention and implementation of new radical production technologies. The recommendations are mostly addressed to politicians although stressing the importance of collaboration of all actors.

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Section: Identification Of Barriers and Inducements Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

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Bielecki

et al. 2020

Energy

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“…Previous authors [33][34][35][36][37] have established that the transition towards a low carbon economy may have pernicious effects at regional and local levels, particularly, in coalreliant regions. To mitigate the social consequences of the low carbon transition and to ensure a just transition, the European Commission launched the European Coal Regions in Transition Initiative.…”

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Contribution of the Horizon2020 Program to the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization in Coal Regions in Transition: The Spanish Case

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This work aims to assess how regional innovation systems support research and innovation smart specialization strategies (RIS3) in coal intensive regions. Although many authors have analyzed energy transition paths for the European coal regions, no study has assessed how the network properties of their innovation systems are aligned with the priorities identified in their RIS3. This work fills this gap, relying on social network analysis (SNA) to assess innovation systems’ underlying networks, considering the active role of their nodes, thus, contributing to the innovation systems literature in the areas of modelling, simulation and performance evaluation. Within this work, regional innovation systems are modelled as research networks. These networks are promoted by the consortia funded by the European H2020 program. The assessment of the topology and properties of these networks enables the evaluation of the functioning of the innovation system, its technological strengths, as well as the key players involved. Based on these results, the characteristics of the innovation systems are compared to the priorities established by the RIS3. Three Spanish coal intensive regions (Aragón, Asturias and Castilla y León) are considered as use cases in this study. The obtained results indicate that, in some cases, the technological strengths of the regional innovation systems are not considered in the identification of the RIS3 priorities, while some RIS3 priorities are not supported by the innovation system. Considering these results, this paper proposes recommendations for regional and European policymakers, as well as for participants in the European research programs.

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“…There has been an emerging literature on just transition and the distributional consequences of climate policies. One strand of this literature is descriptive studies that analyse the difficulties associated with moving labour away from carbon-intensive sectors (Spencer et al, 2018, Sartor, 2018, Swilling et al, 2016, Leipprand and Flachsland, 2018, Turnheim and Geels, 2012and Skoczkowski et al, 2020.…”

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Workers or Consumers: Who Pays for Low-Carbon Transition – Theoretical Analysis of Welfare Change in General Equilibrium Setting

Witajewski-Baltvilks

Boratyński

2021

Central European Economic Journal

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Policies that are introduced to mitigate adverse consequences of climate change involve economic costs. For some households, these costs will materialise in the form of an increase in prices of consumption goods, whereas for others they will materialise in the form of falling productivity and wages. Disentangling these two effects is important in the light of the design of funds that aim to support the households that are negatively affected by climate policy. In this article, we study the effect of carbon tax on welfare through changes of consumer prices and wages in a general equilibrium setting. In the first step, we review the literature on ‘top-down’ models, which are used to evaluate the macroeconomic cost of climate policy. We find that these models usually do not account for loss of productivity of workers who must change their sector due to climate policy. In the second step, we develop a theoretical, micro-founded, two-sector model that explicitly accounts for the loss of productivity of workers. The compensation of climate-change mitigation costs would require allocation of separate funds for the affected consumers and workers.

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Climate-change induced uncertainties, risks and opportunities for the coal-based region of Silesia: Stakeholders' perspectives

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

Contribution of the Horizon2020 Program to the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization in Coal Regions in Transition: The Spanish Case

Workers or Consumers: Who Pays for Low-Carbon Transition – Theoretical Analysis of Welfare Change in General Equilibrium Setting

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