Explaining regional acceptance of the German energy transition by including trust in stakeholders and perception of fairness as socio-institutional factors

Gölz, Sebastian; Wedderhoff, Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.026

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“…In particular, trustworthiness might be undermined by energy companies' current mandate to maximise profits, if this is perceived to be at odds with goals and values supported by the public. Indeed, procedural and distributive justice have been suggested to play a notable role in shaping views on energy transitions and for informing energy policy (Evensen, 2016;Gölz & Wedderhoff, 2018;Sovacool et al, 2017;Wüstenhagen et al, 2007), including influencing perceptions of public responsibility for and personal acceptance of energy transition costs (Evensen et al, 2018). It could therefore be argued that justice criteria are essential for the maintenance of trust, which, in turn, is important for people's acceptance of responsibility and costs associated with low-carbon energy transitions.…”

Section: Procedural and Distributive Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Of profits, transparency, and responsibility: Public views on financing energy system change in Great Britain

Becker

Demski

Evensen

et al. 2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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Energy transitions in Great Britain (GB) require public engagement and acceptance, but it is not clear how energy system change is to be financed. In this paper we explore public views on responsibility (of the government in Great Britain, energy companies and residents) to pay for costs associated with energy system change and personal acceptance to contribute financially. Five focus groups with 6-9 participants each, were conducted in four locations across GB. Using thematic analysis to examine responsibility and the role of trust we identified three themes relating to 1) views on profits, 2) lack of transparency and 3) the perceived problematic relationship between energy companies and government. Participants assigned greater responsibility to institutional actors and did not believe that these actors were currently contributing sufficiently. Although participants were prepared to accept some additional costs because they were in favour of energy transitions, they also expressed distrust towards the other actors due to concerns over the profit driven energy system, lack of transparency and perceived close connections between the energy industry and government. These concerns could result in reduced public support for transitions if they remain unaddressed; they highlight a demand for a more equal distribution of costs and benefits and fairer processes in the energy system and transitions.

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Section: Procedural and Distributive Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Of profits, transparency, and responsibility: Public views on financing energy system change in Great Britain

Becker

Demski

Evensen

et al. 2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Systemic perspectives, such as functional mixtures of types of use, are becoming increasingly important, e.g., multiple uses of areas such as solar panels combined with sheep pastures. In addition, governance solutions to increase acceptance are necessary (cf Gölz & Wedderhoff, 2018). Cooperative and local communities for energy supply are promising approaches to balance the interests of users.…”

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Implementation of International Land Use Objectives - Discussions in Germany -

Weith

Warner²,

Susman

2019

Planning Practice & Research

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International sustainability objectives for land use, designated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Habitat III are formulated in general ways. The objectives need specification and regionalisation to raise impact. How far the general spirit of the objectives is reflected in regional and local practiceswill be discussed using the example of the annual scientific meeting of the German Academy of Spatial Research and Planning (ARL). This article shows that discussions about implementation comprise a richness of ideas in good practice and concepts for inner city development in some locations, whereas other disputes, for example, urban-rural interconnections, are missing.

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“…The view that energy transition helps to promote CO 2 emission reduction has been widely recognized by scholars at home and abroad (Pan et al, 2017;Gölz and Wedderhoff, 2018). In terms of the existing research, many scholars believe that China's energy transition mainly involves the clean use of highcarbon energy and the structure optimization of the clean lowcarbon energy (Pain, 2017;Chai et al, 2019).…”

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“…For example, the U.S. energy transition's core motivation is to ensure energy security and reduce dependence on imported energy, and other motivations such as environmental protection are secondary. On the contrary, environmental protection has been the most important motivation for Germany's energy transition, although energy security motivation is also essential for Germany (Gölz and Wedderhoff, 2018;Karin et al, 2019). In view of this, as the world's largest energy consumer, China should pay attention to both energy security and acceptable costs as well as the environmental impact of the energy transition, especially its impact on carbon emissions.…”

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China’s Energy Transition Policy Expectation and Its CO2 Emission Reduction Effect Assessment

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Measuring the expected impact of China’s energy transition on carbon dioxide (CO2) mitigation and identifying the key influencing factors in different economic sectors will help to provide better policy recommendations for CO2 emission reduction. Based on the prediction results of China’s CO2 emissions in 2030 under the baseline scenario and the target scenario, this study constructs the control group and the treatment group of the energy transition policy quasinatural experiment and then uses the difference in difference (DID) model to evaluate the CO2 emission reduction effect of China’s energy transition policy. The results reveal that the energy transition policy has a significant impact on CO2 emission reduction and helps to achieve China’s 2030 carbon emission reduction target. The impact of energy structure transition on CO2 emission reduction has significant sectoral heterogeneity, which has a positive reduction effect in the industry sector, wholesale and retail sectors, and accommodation and catering sectors, but its reduction effect is not obvious in transportation, storage, and postal sectors. It is suggested that China should implement the sector-differentiated CO2 mitigation strategy, focus on improving the industrial sector’s energy efficiency, and promote the clean, low-carbon transition of energy consumption structure in construction, transportation, storage, and postal industries.

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Explaining regional acceptance of the German energy transition by including trust in stakeholders and perception of fairness as socio-institutional factors

Cited by 58 publications

References 23 publications

Of profits, transparency, and responsibility: Public views on financing energy system change in Great Britain

Of profits, transparency, and responsibility: Public views on financing energy system change in Great Britain

Implementation of International Land Use Objectives - Discussions in Germany -

China’s Energy Transition Policy Expectation and Its CO2 Emission Reduction Effect Assessment

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