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Governance, Legislation and Economic Policy for Green Energy Production: The EU Green Deal Framework and Horizon 2030—2nd Edition

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 1310

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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).

Dr. Antonio Sánchez-Bayón
Prof. Dr. Estrella Trincado
Prof. Dr. Jesús Alberto Valero-Matas
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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European Green Deal, Energy Transition and Greenflation Paradox under Austrian Economics Analysis
by Martin García-Vaquero, Frank Daumann and Antonio Sánchez-Bayón
Energies 2024, 17(15), 3783; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17153783 - 31 Jul 2024
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Greenflation or inflation for green energy transition in Europe becomes a structural problem of new scarcity and poverty, under Austrian Economics analysis. The current European public agenda on the Green Deal and its fiscal and monetary policies are closer to coercive central planning, [...] Read more.
Greenflation or inflation for green energy transition in Europe becomes a structural problem of new scarcity and poverty, under Austrian Economics analysis. The current European public agenda on the Green Deal and its fiscal and monetary policies are closer to coercive central planning, against the markets, economic calculus, and Mises’ theorem. In this paper, attention is paid to the green financial bubble and the European greenflation paradox: in order to achieve greater future social welfare, due to a looming climate risk, present wellbeing and wealth is being reduced, causing a real and ongoing risk of social impoverishment (to promote the SGD 13 on climate action, it is violated by SGD 1–3 on poverty and hunger and 7–12 on affordable energy, economic growth, sustainable communities, and production). According to the European Union data, the relations are explained between green transition and public policies (emissions, tax, debt, credit boom, etc.), GDP variations (real–nominal), and the increase of inflation and poverty. As many emissions are reduced, there is a decrease of GDP (once deflated) and GDP per capita, evidencing social deflation, which in turn means more widespread poverty and a reduction of the middle-class. Also, there is a risk of a green-bubble, as in the Great Recession of 2008 (but this time supported by the European Union) and possible stagflation (close to the 1970s). To analyze this problem generated by mainstream economics (econometric and normative interventionism), this research offers theoretical and methodological frameworks of mainline economics (positive explanations based on principles and empirical illustrations for complex social phenomena), especially the Austrian Economics and the New-Institutional Schools (Law and Economics, Public Choice, and Comparative Constitutional Economics). Full article
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