Towards sustainable blue energy production: an analysis of legal transformative and adaptive capacity

Similä, Jukka; Soininen, Niko; Paukku, Eelis

doi:10.1080/02646811.2021.1875687

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“…Several renewable energy production investments have required and still require operating subsidies, like feed-in-tariffs, in order to ensure competitiveness against more mature technologies in the long term (Zhang et al, 2014). Currently, in Finland, only biomass burning, hydropower and onshore wind power are commercially viable renewable energy technologies without operating subsidies (Similä et al, 2021). However, achieving this requires a long-term and expensive feed-in-tariff -system, which will generate costs until the 2030s (Paukku and Similä, 2020).…”

Section: The Social Cost Of Carbon Carbon Taxes and Energy Transitionmentioning

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“…There are some earlier studies focusing on Finnish carbon taxation, but they do not cover recent major developments and do not go deeply into tax legislation (Sairinen, 2012). In addition to that, there are some studies written in English about the Finnish energy policy, which focus on energy transition (Pilpola and Lund, 2018;Paukku, 2021a;Similä et al, 2021;Farsaei et al, 2020). In addition to that, there are a number of studies written in Finnish that focus on the Finnish energy policy (Paukku, 2021b(Paukku, , 2019Paukku and Similä, 2020;Paukku, 2020b).…”

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Carbon Pricing in Finland: Balancing policy goals

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This study discusses the role and development of carbon pricing via taxation by using Finland as a case example of several issues with carbon taxation. Carbon taxation and carbon pricing face some major problems, mainly competitiveness and social issues. Although Finland was one of the first countries to adopt carbon-based energy taxation, these problems shaped the tax system in a way that could even be described as “avoiding carbon pricing”. This study provides new insights on how to develop carbon taxation and how to overcome major problems related to commonly known problems with carbon pricing.

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Carbon Pricing in Finland: Balancing policy goals

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2023

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“…In legal scholarship, this has meant looking at water law through the lens of climate change to identify shortcomings (Keessen and van Rijswick, 2012), untapped capacities for resilience (Garmestani et al, 2019;Puharinen, 2021) and improvements that can be made to the legal regimes to better deal with the growing challenge (Gupta and Conti, 2017). Climate change has also increased the importance of assessing the legal frameworks from the viewpoint of promoting water-related mitigation measures such as energy generation from offshore wind power and hydropower facilities (Similä et al, 2022) and adaptation measures, such as allocation of scarcer water resources (Bigelow and Zhang, 2018;Michalak, 2020) and flood protection (Kapović Solomun et al, 2022).…”

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Puharinen

2023

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This article gives an overview of the global water law research and provides a contemporary understanding of water law spanning across public and private law questions of natural resources use, environmental protection, and water-related disasters. The overview is based on a systematic literature review. Using HLA Hart’s distinction, we divide the various strands of water law scholarship into two main perspectives, namely the internal and the external. From the law’s internal perspective, water law research is conducted with an intent to interpret and clarify rights and obligations in existing legal instruments, such as multilateral agreements and national statutes, and case law. Based on the literature review, vibrant themes from this perspective are water use and protection, water cooperation, human right to water, rights of nature, water security, water services, and coherence between legal instruments and institutions. From law’s external perspective, the focus of water law research is to analyse and understand how law as an instrument and societal institution facilitates and steers, but also impedes, the movement of public and private actors toward certain societal goals effectively and legitimately. Here, themes such as water law in collaborative and adaptive governance, ecosystem approach, good governance, and climate change adaptation are central.

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“…Currently, marine biotechnology contributes to several applications. Among them, a sustainable blue economy, the core idea of which is to draw economic benefit from marine and freshwater environments without sacrificing their ecological resilience, has emerged (Similä et al ., 2020).…”

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Seaweed and microalgae as major actors of blue biotechnology to achieve plant stimulation and pest and pathogen biocontrol – a review of the latest advances and future prospects

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Modern agriculture needs proper solutions to face the current trend of pesticides and fertilizers reduction. One of the available leverages to support this transition is the use of bioproducts that are more environmentally friendly and less hazardous for human health. Among them, blue biotechnology and more precisely seaweed and microalgae gain interest every year in the scientific community. In agriculture, seaweeds (Macroalgae) have been used in the production of plant biostimulants while microalgae still remain unexploited. Microalgae are widely described as renewable sources of biofuels, bioingredients and biologically active compounds, such as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), carotenoids, phycobiliproteins, sterols, vitamins and polysaccharides, which attract considerable interest in both scientific and industrial communities. They affect agricultural crops for enhancement of plant growth, seedling growth. They can also improve nutrient incorporation, fruit setting, resistance properties against pests and diseases, improving stress management (drought, salinity and temperature). The present review aimed at the interest of blue biotechnology in agronomy, with a specific focus on microalgae, their biological activities and their possible application in agriculture as a potentially sustainable alternative for enhanced crop performance, nutrient uptake and resilience to environmental stress. This review does not only present a comprehensive study of microalgae as plant biostimulants but also as biofertilizers, with a particular emphasis on future challenges these solutions will have to deal with, microalgae being able to synthesize secondary metabolites with potential biopesticidal action.

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Towards sustainable blue energy production: an analysis of legal transformative and adaptive capacity

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Carbon Pricing in Finland: Balancing policy goals

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