The Green Versus Green Trap and a Way Forward

Doukas, Haris; Νίκας, Αλέξανδρος; Stamtsis, Giorgos; Tsipouridis, Ioannis

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“…The increasing cost of carbon in tandem with the decreasing cost of RES suggests that the focus of decision makers should not be laid on deciding whether decarbonization policies should be implemented or not, but rather on identifying the optimal speed of such an implementation in order for it to achieve both the economic and energy targets set. However, little evidence has been provided regarding the macroeconomic and societal impact of higher decarbonization speeds [22,88]. In this regard, in this study, we examine the macroeconomic and societal implications of adopting a rapid delignitization scenario relative to a mild one.…”

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What Is the Macroeconomic Impact of Higher Decarbonization Speeds? The Case of Greece

Spiliotis

Doukas

2021

Energies

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In alignment with the European Union’s legislation, Greece submitted its final 10-year National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) in December 2019, setting more ambitious energy and climate targets than those originally proposed in the draft version of the document. Apart from higher penetration of renewable energy sources (RES), the final NECP projects also zero carbon use in power generation till 2030. Although decarbonization has long been regarded beneficial for economies that base their energy production on coal, as it is the case with Greece, the macroeconomic and societal ramifications of faster transitions to carbon-free economies remain highly unexplored. Under this context, in this paper, we soft-link energy models, namely Times-Greece and Primes, with a macroeconomic model, namely Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), to measure the effects of the final and draft NECPs on the Greek economy and evaluate the impact of higher decarbonization speeds. We find that the faster transition scenario displays both economic and societal merits, increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and household income by about 1% and 7%, respectively.

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What Is the Macroeconomic Impact of Higher Decarbonization Speeds? The Case of Greece

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Doukas

2021

Energies

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“…People with greater knowledge about the humannature relationship, characterized by an ecological attitude, noticed the need to reduce consumption and emissions of pollutants. Therefore, shaping pro-ecological attitudes and the diffusion of knowledge about the real environmental effects of obtaining energy from various sources is crucial for reliable discourse and social participation in shaping the energy transformation [73].…”

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Impact of the Energy Sector on the Quality of the Environment in the Opinion of Energy Consumers from Southeastern Poland

2021

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Limiting CO2 emissions has been adopted as a contemporary challenge and introduced into numerous global and regional policies. The measures taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions largely relate to the decarbonization of the economy. Changes in the Polish energy sector are a huge challenge because the energy mix is dominated by the energy derived from coal combustion. Decarbonizing the energy sector will require significant financial resources. Therefore, several questions arise: What is the social attitude to the planned changes? How do residents treat the issue of greenhouse gases? Do they perceive the relationship between energy production and the quality of the natural environment? What are their expectations regarding the transformation of the energy sector? The aim of this study was to identify the opinion of the inhabitants of southeastern Poland on changes in the energy sector and its impact on the quality of the natural environment. The study was conducted at the turn of 2020 and 2021. The survey was partial and carried out using the CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interview) method; 1539 questionnaire forms were filled in and the sample was randomly selected. The study confirms the following research hypotheses: 1. There is social support for the view that climate change is currently one of the greatest threats to modern civilization. 2. There is a social belief that the quality of the natural environment in southeastern Poland is good compared to other regions of Poland and Europe. 3. Increasing the share of energy based on renewable energy sources is socially expected. 4. There is a social expectation of nuclear energy. It can therefore be concluded that the surveyed community accepts the direction of changes in the energy sector.

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“…Energy democracy connects the renewable transformation with redistributing political and economic power, wealth, and ownership to create a more just and equitable world (Burke and Stephens 2018). The energy democracy frame recognizes the social potential for co-creation and coownership of a renewable future that is much more than a simple substitution of energy technologies (Doukas, Nikas, Stamtsis et al 2020). Rather, the renewable transition provides an opportunity to reverse the economic oppression associated with concentrated wealth and fossil fuel reliance by empowering local energy production and control (Burke 2018).…”

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Sacred Civics

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Chung-Tiam-Fook³

2022

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i "Creative, hopeful, audacious. Here is a book that the city building professions have been, unknowingly, waiting for. Transcending technical and policy 'fixes,' this book addresses the cultural and spiritual dimensions of shaping cities as if people, land, and nature were sacred. An impressive, pluriversal collection of essays, asking arguably the most important question of our era: what will it take to build seven generation cities?" Leonie Sandercock, FRSC, Professor in Community Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada "Sacred Civics offers a forward-looking framework that re-imagines what our cities can be if we change our mindset to a more relational one. Through the voices of scholars and practitioners, the book gives a blueprint for how to put into practice the transformative ideas and principles so well articulated here. A wonderful achievement." Sheila R. Foster, Professor at Georgetown University, USA "The old metaphors for cities have run dry. Cities as machines or technologies or mechanisms aren't getting us anywhere. They aren't computers … they aren't smart. But they are systems that are built and managed by communities of humans and their non-human allies. As such, the values that we bear in mind as we do the work of city-ing matters. The work that we do together matters. It should be seen as sacred. Even the act of figuring out what this means is something that we should do together, and as such is a sacred process. This book ties many of the relevant threads together into the pattern we need for doing the work of cities in the 21st century. It liberates us from the mechanistic models of the past. It liberates us to figure out what's next for cities. Those of us who work to build just cities and communities need this book." Nigel Jacob, Co-Founder, Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, USA"Nature and the sacred have long been banished from the city. Yet can cities become the site of wisdom, wholeness, and healing? This is the urgent question this unique and wonderfully creative volume tackles by weaving together indigenous ontologies, the relational turn in urban studies, and decoloniality to persuasively develop the principles of 'sacred civics' and 'seven generation cities' as the foundation for a substantial rethinking of city building and the democratization of city futures. Chung-Tiam-Fook, Agyeman, and Engle have assembled a truly outstanding and diverse group of indigenous and nonindigenous writers and artists, including some of today's leading scholars in urban studies, to offer us a cogent framework of urban design as a praxis for the just co-existence of all within a living cosmos. Their call for a relational accountability for the urban worlds we design, grounded on a renewed Earth spirituality and a paradigm of interdependence and care, couldn't be timelier. Along the way, readers are invited to inspiring and rigorous analyses on the implications of such rethinking for commons, property, governance, nature, and the economy. The book will be of great value to urban pla...

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The Green Versus Green Trap and a Way Forward

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

What Is the Macroeconomic Impact of Higher Decarbonization Speeds? The Case of Greece

What Is the Macroeconomic Impact of Higher Decarbonization Speeds? The Case of Greece

Impact of the Energy Sector on the Quality of the Environment in the Opinion of Energy Consumers from Southeastern Poland

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