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Green growth for whom, how and why? The REPowerEU Plan and the inconsistencies of European Union energy policy by Rubén Vezzoni is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Green growth for whom, how and why? The REPowerEU Plan and the inconsistencies of European Union energy policy about?
The REPowerEU plan redefines the European Union (EU) energy transition agenda in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. Formally, it aims to boost green growth, defend liberal democracy, and increase Europe's energy sovereignty. Yet, the new course of EU energy policy may be paradoxically yoking the continent into raw materials dependency and lock-in investments in fossil fuel infrastructures, while partnering with other warmonger and dictatorial states. I argue that even a much-needed switch to low-carbon energy sources is not immune from the calamitous consequences of an energy transition based on the growth imperative. Building on the System of Provision approach and integrating it with insights from ecological economics and political ecology, this paper asks how, for what purpose, and on whose terms is the remarkable expansion of solar photovoltaics outlined in the REPowerEU taking place. I find that the mass of raw materials required to meet solar energy targets will increase 3-fold by 2030. This could provide 4.4–6.7 % of EU energy while occupying 5.5–8 % of urbanised spaces. It will also strengthen the dependency on Chinese refining and manufacturing, besides intensifying minin
Who reads Green growth for whom, how and why? The REPowerEU Plan and the inconsistencies of European Union energy policy?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Rubén Vezzoni
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)