Green Deal and Carbon Neutrality Assessment of Czechia

Abstract

The European Green Deal declares climate neutrality as a goal for the year 2050. It establishes an EU binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990. The market, through the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, will determine how EU member states contribute to this target. The Effort Sharing Regulation defines binding national targets to reduce the remaining GHG emissions not covered by the EU ETS. In this paper, an energy optimization model is applied to analyze the capability of Czechia to meet the climate change targets by 2030 and 2050. We define a baseline scenario derived from the National Energy and Climate Plan and three policy scenarios to assess impacts of the extension of the EU ETS to buildings and transport (EU ETS 2) and the coal phase-out on the Czech energy system. One of the policy scenarios aims at approaching climate neutrality in 2050. In addition, another scenario does not assess the impacts of the EU ETS 2 and coal phase-out but searches for the optimal path to achieve climate neutrality in 2050. Given the high level of GHG emissions in 1990 and the significant reduction in GHG emissions in the 1990s, Czechia could achieve a 55% reduction by 2030. However, further decarbonization will be quite challenging.

Analysis of green deal communication on twitter: environmental and political perspective

“…The mood of tweets was largely negative (43%) or neutral (46%), with a positive sentiment of only 11%. Previous research supports these findings and the discourse around individual topics related to the war in Ukraine, as the potential consequences on energy supplies, fossil fuels, and industry, are discussed (Farrell and Newman, 2019;Goldthau and Sitter, 2022;Ciot, 2023;Rečka et al, 2023;Romanova, 2023;Sheth and Uslay, 2023). In response to the war in Ukraine, the European Union reformulated policies to enforce interdependence on gas suppliers through diversification of fuels and clean energy, including renewable resources such as hydrogen, wind, and solar (Kalantzakos et al, 2023;Kaldor, 2023;Proedrou, 2023).…”

Manažerské přístupy k plnění cílů vyplývajících z green dealu v České republice – bibliometrická analýza

“…Green Deal zároveň předpokládá transformaci na "zelenou" ekonomiku při zachování hospodářského růstu a také vytváření nových "zelených" pracovních míst. (Rečka, Máca a Ščasný, 2023), (Lapčík a kol., 2022) Důležitou je také oblast dopravy, který v ČR desítky tisíc lidí nejenom v samotných dopravních společnostech, ale i v dalších firmách, které se na jejím chodu podílejí. (Suproń a Łącka, 2023) Publikace v pro cíl práce klíčových oblastech ekonomie, ekonomiky a odpovědného managementu i přes velkou důležitost těchto oblastí nejsou v databázi WoS příliš početně zastoupeny.…”

The Role of Biomass in Decarbonisation Efforts: Spatially Enriched Energy System Optimisation Modelling

“…Originally, the TIMES-CZ model was based on the Czech region of the pan-European TIMES PanEu model, which was developed by the Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use at the University of Stuttgart [28]. Since the introduction of the initial version, the TIMES-CZ model has undergone enhancements, including the incorporation of individual facilities operating within the scope of the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) [20,21] and the inclusion of a comprehensive transportation module [26].…”

“…This paper primarily examines how different trajectories of forest biomass development will influence the overall energy composition of the Czech economy and Czechia's efforts to attain climate neutrality. We do not present a business-as-usual scenario, as seen in Rečka et al [26]. Our scenarios share common assumptions about prices, the potential of photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy, and the potential of electricity and hydrogen imports, along with energy service demand projections.…”

“…Specifically, we incorporate forest biomass projections, based on Cienciala and Melichar [24], into our regionalised TIMES-CZ model. The previous version of the TIMES-CZ model [26] had limited ability to distinguish energy production and demand technologies by location. The model employed in this paper offers a spatial resolution that more effectively accounts for potential transportation costs.…”