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Governance, Legislation and Economic Policy for Green Energy Production: The EU Green Deal Framework and Horizon 2030

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A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 June 2024 | Viewed by 18933

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Prof. Dr. Antonio Sánchez-Bayón

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Department of Applied Economics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Interests: global economics and cross-cultural management; comparative and cultural studies; religion and economics; identity politics
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Prof. Dr. Estrella Trincado

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Department of Applied Economics, Structure and History, Universidad Compluntese de Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain
Interests: history of economic thought; financial markets; wellbeing economics; renewable energies; energy markets

Prof. Dr. Jesús Alberto Valero-Matas

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Department of Sociology, University of Valladolid, 34004 Palencia, Spain
Interests: regenerative development; immigration; sociology of science; youth
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Prof. Dr. Rafael Rávina-Ripoll

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Department of Business & Management, Universidad de Cádiz, 11100 Cádiz, Spain
Interests: happiness management; social marketing; wellbeing economics; energy markets

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Dear Colleagues,

The clean energy transition started with the European Union (EU) commitment in the Green Deal, adopted in October 2014 and revised in 2018 during the negotiations for the next multi-annual budget period, 2021–27. The Green Deal is based on the sustainable development goals by the United Nations (SDG-NN.UU.) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It will enable the EU to move towards a climate-neutral economy for the benefit of welfare of the Member States and the wellbeing of its citizens. The Green Deal has a complex framework (with legal, political and economic instruments), which includes a set of targets for 2030: a) at least 40% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (on the basis of 1990 levels); b) at least 32% share of renewable energy; and c) at least 32.5% improvement in energy efficiency. The goals related with energy are: to drive progress towards a low-carbon economy and build an energy system that ensures affordable energy for all consumers; to increase the security of the EU’s energy supplies; to reduce the EU dependence on energy imports; to create new opportunities for growth and jobs; and to bring environmental and health benefits (e.g., through reduced air pollution). The EU Green Deal’s success needs the support of national long-term strategies of the Member States (NEPCPs), with coordination and convergence actions.

This Special Issue aims to bring together works that explain the EU Green Deal and its impact in energy transition and management. This call for papers includes original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and well-documented case studies.

The following topics are addressed:

- The EU Green Deal’s impact on energy management;

- Measures adopted for the energy transition;

- The reduction of polluting energies;

- Stimulus of green energies and their efficiency;

- The energy markets, negotiation and conflict-resolution methods;

- The improvement of renewable energy (green and blue energies);

- Convergence actions for energy transition between EU and Member States;

- NEPCPs plans for energy transition and climate-neutral economies;

- Governance, legislation, and economic policy for green energy production;

- Public policies and taxation in the energy sector;

- Digital economy and energy issues in the EU;

- Wellbeing economics and energy issues in the EU;

- Guidelines and legal-policy instruments in the energy sector;

- Other related topics (please ask the editors prior to submitting a paper on a different topic).

Prof. Dr. Antonio Sánchez-Bayón
Prof. Dr. Estrella Trincado
Prof. Dr. Jesús Alberto Valero-Matas
Prof. Dr. Rafael Rávina-Ripoll
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Keywords

EU Green Deal
Energy transition
Clean energies
Renewable energies
Green energies
Blue energies
Climate-neutral energies
Reduction of polluting energies
Wellbeing economics and energy
Energy efficiency
Energy markets
Sustainable Development Goals

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The Effect of Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and the European Green Deal Tools on Life Satisfaction

by Manuela Ortega-Gil, Georgina Cortés-Sierra and Chaima ElHichou-Ahmed

Energies 2021, 14(18), 5839; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14185839 - 15 Sep 2021

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Environmental issues, sustainability, and climate change have become the targets of many policies from international and governmental organizations including the EU’s European Green Deal action plan. This plan provides tools to address them—which include support for the circular economy, implementation of energy and environmental taxes, and investment in environmental protection—with the aim of favoring the well-being of EU citizens. In this context, this study analyses the impact of several parameters (environmental matters, global warming, circular economy, energy and environmental taxes, and expenditure and investment on the environment) on life satisfaction, or subjective well-being, and their effects on 33 European countries. For this purpose, four econometric models were carried out using data collected from the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Study (EVS), and the World Bank and Eurostat, reflecting subjective citizen satisfaction data. The findings present a highly significant inverse relationship between life satisfaction variables and both environmental problems and energy taxes. Additionally, there is a highly significant positive relationship between circular economy, environmental tax, and environmental protection expenditure parameters and life satisfaction variables, as well as, to a lesser degree of significance, with noise pollution from neighbours. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Governance, Legislation and Economic Policy for Green Energy Production: The EU Green Deal Framework and Horizon 2030)

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Improvements and Spatial Dependencies in Energy Transition Measures

by Marta Ewa Kuc-Czarnecka, Magdalena Olczyk and Marek Zinecker

Energies 2021, 14(13), 3802; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14133802 - 24 Jun 2021

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This article aims to improve one of the newest energy transition measures—the World Economic Forum WEF Energy Transition Index (ETI) and find its driving forces. This paper proposes a new approach to correct the ETI structure, i.e., sensitivity analysis, which allows assessing the accuracy of variable weights. Moreover, the novelty of the paper is the use the spatial error models to estimate determinants of the energy transition on different continents. The results show that ETI is unbalanced and includes many variables of marginal importance for the shape of the final ranking. The variables with the highest weights in ETI did not turn out to be its most important determinants, which means that they differentiate the analysed countries well; nonetheless, they do not have sufficient properties of approximating the values of the ETI components. The most important components of ETI (with the highest information load) belong to the CO₂ emissions per capita, the innovative business environment, household electricity prices, or renewable capacity buildout. Moreover, we identified the clustering of both ETI and its two main pillars in Europe, which is not observed in America and Asia. The identified positive spatial effects showing that European countries need much deeper cooperation to reach a successful energy transition. Full article

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Cognitive and Energetic Sustainability for Development: Spain and Europe before the Green Deal

by Sergio García-Magariño and Unai Belintxon

Energies 2021, 14(13), 3770; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14133770 - 23 Jun 2021

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The paper will examine, in detail, (a) the norms that can be featured under the category “Green Deal” connected to the European Commission, (b) their application to Spain, and (c) the different patterns of action and development models that have been shaped by this framework over the last 20 years. These patterns are particularly relevant currently, as the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of advancing towards new patterns of local sustainability endowed with higher resilience. The notion of cognitive sustainability will be one of the added values to the current reflections on sustainability in general, and energetic sustainability in particular. Full article

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The North Caucasus Region as a Blind Spot in the “European Green Deal”: Energy Supply Security and Energy Superpower Russia

by José Antonio Peña-Ramos, Philipp Bagus and Dmitri Amirov-Belova

Energies 2021, 14(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14010017 - 22 Dec 2020

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The “European Green Deal” has ambitious aims, such as net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. While the European Union aims to make its energies greener, Russia pursues power-goals based on its status as a geo-energy superpower. A successful “European Green Deal” would have the up-to-now underestimated geopolitical advantage of making the European Union less dependent on Russian hydrocarbons. In this article, we illustrate Russian power-politics and its geopolitical implications by analyzing the illustrative case of the North Caucasus, which has been traditionally a strategic region for Russia. The present article describes and analyses the impact of Russian intervention in the North Caucasian secessionist conflict since 1991 and its importance in terms of natural resources, especially hydrocarbons. The geopolitical power secured by Russia in the North Caucasian conflict has important implications for European Union’s energy supply security and could be regarded as a strong argument in favor of the “European Green Deal”. Full article

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The European Union Green Deal: Clean Energy Wellbeing Opportunities and the Risk of the Jevons Paradox

by Estrella Trincado, Antonio Sánchez-Bayón and José María Vindel

Energies 2021, 14(14), 4148; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144148 - 9 Jul 2021

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After the Great Recession of 2008, there was a strong commitment from several international institutions and forums to improve wellbeing economics, with a switch towards satisfaction and sustainability in people–planet–profit relations. The initiative of the European Union is the Green Deal, which is similar to the UN SGD agenda for Horizon 2030. It is the common political economy plan for the Multiannual Financial Framework, 2021–2027. This project intends, at the same time, to stop climate change and to promote the people’s wellness within healthy organizations and smart cities with access to cheap and clean energy. However, there is a risk for the success of this aim: the Jevons paradox. In this paper, we make a thorough revision of the literature on the Jevons Paradox, which implies that energy efficiency leads to higher levels of consumption of energy and to a bigger hazard of climate change and environmental degradation. Full article

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