Natural gas -The saviour or bane of EU environmental policy?
(2022) STVM23 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- European environmental policy has in the recent years become more and more prominent, and with the European Commission launching the European green deal, environmental policy has become a part of the centre stage of European policy. When looking to decarbonise the economy natural gas becomes a favourable solution. However, natural gas is not without a problem i.e., natural gas is still a
fossil fuel and does emits greenhouse gases making it unsustainable in the long run. In other words, new natural gas transitioning infrastructure projects need to be highly cost efficient and effective in order to make them beneficial in the process of decarbonating the EU. Moreover, investing long term into fossil fuel infrastructure goes against not... (More) - European environmental policy has in the recent years become more and more prominent, and with the European Commission launching the European green deal, environmental policy has become a part of the centre stage of European policy. When looking to decarbonise the economy natural gas becomes a favourable solution. However, natural gas is not without a problem i.e., natural gas is still a
fossil fuel and does emits greenhouse gases making it unsustainable in the long run. In other words, new natural gas transitioning infrastructure projects need to be highly cost efficient and effective in order to make them beneficial in the process of decarbonating the EU. Moreover, investing long term into fossil fuel infrastructure goes against not only EU legislation and policy, but also the
commitments undertaken by the Paris Agreement. Yet, at the same time EU legislation has classified natural gas as a green investment. The thesis seeks to study policy incoherence caused by favouring natural gas solutions while also moving towards a carbon neutral society. In order to do so the thesis will take on a liberal intergovernmentalist approach, analysing European integration or the lack of it as an explanation for the situation of today’s EU environmental and energy policy. Finding the outcome of EU policy to be the result of a compromise between opposing bargaining positions. (Less)
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- author
- Linder, Tim LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM23 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- EU, Natural gas, Environmental- and Energy policy, Liberal intergovernmentalism
- language
- English
- id
- 9097365
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- 2022-10-04 13:13:20
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