Climate change policies: Good news or bad news for firms in the European Union?

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.

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Post COVID-19 Recovery and 2050 Climate Change Targets: Changing the Emphasis from Promotion of Renewables to Mandated Curtailment of Fossil Fuels in the EU Policies

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14051347 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (5) ◽

pp. 1347

Author(s):

Kyriakos Maniatis ◽

David Chiaramonti ◽

Eric van den Heuvel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

European Union ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Global Economy ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Global Climate ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Climate Change Policy ◽

Climate Impacts ◽

The European Union

The present work considers the dramatic changes the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the global economy, with particular emphasis on energy. Focusing on the European Union, the article discusses the opportunities policy makers can implement to reduce the climate impacts and achieve the Paris Agreement 2050 targets. The analysis specifically looks at the fossil fuels industry and the future of the fossil sector post COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis first revises the fossil fuel sector, and then considers the need for a shift of the global climate change policy from promoting the deployment of renewable energy sources to curtailing the use of fossil fuels. This will be a change to the current global approach, from a relative passive one to a strategically dynamic and proactive one. Such a curtailment should be based on actual volumes of fossil fuels used and not on percentages. Finally, conclusions are preliminary applied to the European Union policies for net zero by 2050 based on a two-fold strategy: continuing and reinforcing the implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive to 2035, while adopting a new directive for fixed and over time increasing curtailment of fossils as of 2025 until 2050.

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Staatsklimahaftung

10.5771/9783748922964 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isabell Böhm

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

European Union ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

The European Union ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Basic Law ◽

State Liability ◽

Liability Claims ◽

The Eu ◽

Made In

Climate change litigation is becoming increasingly important. This thesis deals with the question whether state liability claims against Germany or the EU can be justified, if commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not met. For this purpose, the claim under public liability according to § 839 German Civil Code in connection with Art. 34 German Basic Law, the liability of the EU-Member States and the liability of the European Union according to Art. 340 II TFEU are discussed. At the end of the thesis, considerations on the practical perspectives of state liability are made in order to improve their prospects of success.

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Health co-benefits and the development of climate change mitigation policies in the European Union

Climate Policy ◽

10.1080/14693062.2018.1544541 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 585-597 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Annabelle Workman ◽

Grant Blashki ◽

Kathryn J. Bowen ◽

David J. Karoly ◽

John Wiseman

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

European Union ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

The European Union ◽

Change Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Policies

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Climate Change, Security and Peace: The Role of the European Union

Review of European Studies ◽

10.5539/res.v5n3p83 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Angela Liberatore

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

European Union ◽

The European Union

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A Guideline and Cautionary Note: How to Use the Belief Update Task Correctly

10.31234/osf.io/st4vu ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tali Sharot ◽

Neil Garrett

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Bad News ◽

Good News ◽

Belief Formation ◽

Cautionary Note ◽

Helpful Tool ◽

Wide Range

In 2011 we published a paper showing that people update their beliefs to a greater extent in response to good news (e.g., learning that the likelihood of robbery is lower than expected) than bad news (e.g., learning it is lower than expected) (Sharot et al., 2011). This phenomenon, which can lead to increased optimistic beliefs, is absent in depression. Since then, our belief update task has been used by many others to test a wide range of questions related to belief formation and optimism. Most of these studies are rigorous and well conducted. However, a small number of researchers have used the task inappropriately, inserting new confounds and failing to control for other potential ones. This has resulted in the report of false findings which have muddied the literature and caused confusion. Given these incidents and the enthusiasm for using the task across different disciplines, the need for guidelines on how to use the belief update task correctly has become apparent. The belief update task can be a helpful tool in studying beliefs in domains ranging from climate change to health, but like any other task it must be used properly if valid conclusions are to be reached. We hope this guide will be helpful for scientists who would like to use the belief update task, as well as readers, reviewers and editors who are required to evaluate studies using this task.

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European Union as a Leader in Climate Change Policy: Assessing Europe’s Roles in the World∗

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2016.v12n5p285 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 285

Author(s):

Omer Ugur ◽

Kadir Caner Dogan ◽

Metin Aksoy

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

European Union ◽

International Politics ◽

Climate Change Policy ◽

The European Union ◽

Change Policy ◽

The Usa ◽

The Moment ◽

Climate Change Politics ◽

The Eu

The European Union has grown up in terms of influence and size in international politics. The size of its economy and the ever-increasing membership, have seen its ambitions grow meaning that the EU now has an international presence it did not have at its formation. It is easy to say that with the EU being an ambitious actor in international politics, the rise into prominence of climate change naturally came in handy for the EU as it provided an opportunity for the EU to assert itself and prove both its capacity and presence. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the withdrawal of the USA from the obligations of the Kyoto came as a blessing in disguise for the Union as it seized the moment to assert itself. Thus, in trying to understand what role the EU has or is playing in international climate change politics, there is need to assess its leadership claims and what it has done to prove these claims. To get there, the paper will navigate through a part of the discipline of International Relations (IR) to understand how it provides for a basis to explain or understand the EU’s limitations and strengths on actorness.

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