Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions

Brauers, Hanna; Oei, Pao-Yu; Walk, Paula

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2020.09.001

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“…al. it is assumed that policy outcomes regarding coal consumption are deeply influenced by several actor groups, such as trade unions, environmental organizations and the government [24]. An analysis of the situation in various countries shows how these forces interact with the coal regime.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Managing the Energy Transition through Discourse. The Case of Poland

Krzywda

Androniceanu

2021

Energies

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Since energy transition has become a necessity, many countries are developing decarbonization plans and looking for ways to reduce CO2 emissions. The process takes different forms, most often being affected by local conditions, which means that it takes place in each country differently, due to the country’s social and economic specifics. One of the countries that has just started its energy transition process is Poland. The case of Poland is extremely interesting, as it is a country whose economy is still heavily dependent on coal and there are very strong traditions related to this particular source of energy. On the other hand, Poland has two very good reasons to move away from coal. The complexity and comprehensiveness of the energy transition results, among other things, from the diversity of actors involved in this issue and the multiplicity of their, often conflicting, interests. Using a critical discourse analysis, this paper attempts to show how those actors attempt to shape the transition through the discourses which they generate. The study covers the media discourse that took place in Poland between September 2020 and May 2021, i.e., a time when the Polish government negotiated with representatives of the miners’ trade unions the terms of Poland’s transition from coal. A critical analysis of the texts that appeared in the media during this time provides a picture of how different groups of social actors perceive the transition and how they try to manage that process.

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Section: Conceptual Framework and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Germany, trade unions and influential coal companies slowed the decline of coal. The main objective here became the creation of employment opportunities [24]. In terms of the economic and social role of coal, Poland can be compared to Britain and Germany, which are also coal powers.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Methodologymentioning

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Managing the Energy Transition through Discourse. The Case of Poland

Krzywda

Androniceanu

2021

Energies

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“…Entrenched fossil fuel interests, technologies and infrastructure, as well as existing institutions, norms or even geopolitical considerations-as is the case with China's Belt and Road Initiative-can constrain the pace of the high-carbon transition (Huang, 2016;Saha, 2020;Seto et al, 2016;Sovacool, 2017;Unruh, 2000). Empirical research on this 'carbon lock-in' effect has focussed on a variety of sectors, including transportation (Mattioli et al, 2020;Meckling & Nahm, 2019), petrochemicals (Janipour et al 2020) and power generation (Brauers et al, 2020;Rentier et al, 2019;Trencher et al, 2020). It has also spanned different geographies in the Global North (Carley, 2011;Kraushaar-Friesen & Bush, 2020;Rentier et al, 2019) and the Global South (Strambo et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Empirical research on this ‘carbon lock‐in’ effect has focussed on a variety of sectors, including transportation (Mattioli et al., 2020; Meckling & Nahm, 2019), petrochemicals (Janipour et al. 2020) and power generation (Brauers et al., 2020; Rentier et al., 2019; Trencher et al., 2020). It has also spanned different geographies in the Global North (Carley, 2011; Kraushaar‐Friesen & Bush, 2020; Rentier et al., 2019) and the Global South (Strambo et al., 2020).…”

Section: The Challenges Of ‘High‐carbon’ Energy Transitionsmentioning

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The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review

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“…Lack of necessary interconnections between new sites of renewable generation in the north of the country and southern industry centres along with nuclear power phase out have made the substitution of coal power in Germany particularly difficult (Zimakov 2018). While other leading EU countries were already pursuing coal phase-out, Germany has taken first cautious steps by gradually putting several units of four lignite power plants into security reserve since 2016 (Brauers et al 2020). Nevertheless, this decision has not affected the top ten list.…”

Section: Stable Trend In Coal-dependent Power Generation Countriesmentioning

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The EU ETS Top Ten Polluters List as a Policy Tool of Climate Action Organisations

Зимаков¹

2021

EJSD

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The EU ETS is one of the most important EC instruments to curb CO2 emissions. Various climate action organisations use verified emissions data from EU ETS to calculate top EU polluters lists. These shortlists are actively used in their advocacy strategies as an evidence of national or EU-wide climate policies (under)performance to influence policymaking. However, there is no official EU ETS top ten list released by the EC what weakens the political power of this tool. Addressing possible reasons for EC’s reluctance the paper investigates the correlation between the presence of national enterprises in the EU ETS top ten list and the national climate policy actions over 2008-2019 timeframe. Despite different limitations, the EU ETS top ten is adequately reflecting main developments in national efforts to curb GHG emissions and is pointing out underperforming countries and industries covered by the EU ETS. In the variety of hard and soft EU climate policy instruments, the EU ETS top ten polluters list could feature as an information tool. It is especially important for climate action organizations, providing them with an officially released rating as a common reference point that they could use in their evaluations and political campaigns.

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Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions

Cited by 89 publications

References 40 publications

Managing the Energy Transition through Discourse. The Case of Poland

Managing the Energy Transition through Discourse. The Case of Poland

The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review

The EU ETS Top Ten Polluters List as a Policy Tool of Climate Action Organisations

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