The political economy of coal in Poland
Drivers and barriers for a shift away from fossil fuels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23314801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Brauers (German Institute for Economic Research, corresponding author), Pao-Yu Oei (0000-0001-6638-0147, German Institute for Economic Research) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 144 |
| Pages | 111621 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Energy Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0301-4215 • E-ISSN: 1873-6777 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111621 |
| OpenAlex | W3045820270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 78 |
Poland is the largest hard coal and second largest lignite producer in the EU, generating around 80 percent of its electricity from coal. Resistance to a reduction in coal production and consumption comes from various actors, namely, coal corporations, unions, parts of civil society and the government – as well as their coalitions. Their opposition centres around the prospect of losing their business, past negative experiences with structural change, fears of rising energy prices and energy security concerns, as well as potential unemployment in regions almost entirely dependent on coal. This paper identifies key political and economic drivers and barriers of a reduction in coal production and consumption in Poland using the Triple Embeddedness Framework. Uneconomic coal mining, unavoidable energy infrastructure investments, rising air pollution levels and pressure from the European Union might provide new political momentum for a shift away from coal in line with international climate targets. However, results show that to achieve political feasibility, policies targeting a reduction in coal production and use need to be implemented jointly with social and structural policy measures, addressing a just transition for the affected regions in line with the vision of a ‘European Green Deal’.
Business · Coal · Economics · Economy · Fossil fuel · Natural resource economics · Paradigm shift · Political science · Politics · Waste management · Engineering · Global Energy Security and Policy · Integrated Energy Systems Optimization · Renewable energy and sustainable power systems
Linking just transition and regime destabilization through sub-regime interactions
Socio-political feedback on the path to net zero
Social movements in energy transitions
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland
Coal transitions—part 1
Past socio-political transitions away from coal and gas show challenges and opportunities ahead
The effects of climate change and environmental regulation analysing U.S. citizens' typology
From path dependence to path creation
Energy cooperatives and just transition in Southeastern Europe
A wise person plants a tree a day before the end of the world
Just transitions for a new eco-social contract
Fossil fuel reliance and public support for climate change mitigation
A new narrative for sustainability
Ocean governance in practice
How do politics, news media and the public frame the discourse on coal mining? Implications for the legitimacy, (de)stabilisation and transition of an industry regime
Impact of fossil fuel usage reduction policy on PM2.5 level changes in a Lesser Poland Area
The Impacts of Landscape Loss on Industrial Communities
The Turów Brown Coal Mine in the shadow of an international conflict
Let it Flow, Our Energy or Bright Future
Reordering the European energy hegemony
The political economy of coal phase-out
Comparing the German exit of nuclear and coal
Green hydrogen value chains in the industrial sector—Geopolitical and market implications
The power of plurality
The political economy of coal across 12 countries
A tale of two coal regimes
Justice in transition
Burning coal in a cleaner way
The road to net zero runs through the resources sector’
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition
Explaining Indonesia's failed energy transition
When green recovery fails to consider coal pushback
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions
Polish Climate Policy Narratives
The Coal Phase-Out in Germany and Its Regional Impact on Economic Worries
Exploring the Presence and Absence of Academic Discourse on Public Participation in the European Green Deal
Climate Bailout”
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout
Cities facing the European green deal
Post-Communist Countries’ Participation in Global Forums on Climate Action
Local resilience for low‐carbon transition in Poland
Coping with decarbonisation
Battle over the sun
Finding tipping points in the global steel sector
Beyond climate anxiety
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions
Comparative Subnational Policy Mix
Decarbonising national growth models
The Socio-Spatiality of Energy Borderlands – Multidimensional Discursive Practices Regarding the Turów Coal Mine Conflict
En route to decarbonization
Qualifying Coal
Unveiling resistance and opposition against low-carbon energy transitions
Green conservatism or environmental nativism
How do past global experiences of coal phase-out inform China’s domestic approach to a just transition
From adoration to damnation? Exploring role of media in shaping low-carbon economy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
The emotional geographies of a coal mining transition
Beyond Usual Suspects
The political economy of Chile’s coal transition
Hard coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways
Comparing coal phase-out pathways
Hard to say goodbye
Bounded imaginaries of coal
The Anthropocene and ecological awareness in Poland
Reconceptualising the co-evolution of firms-in-industries and their environments
The uniqueness of the energy security, justice, and governance problem
Innovation studies and sustainability transitions
Cutting with both arms of the scissors
Innovation systems
Fossil fuel supply and climate policy
The destabilisation of existing regimes
Anti-fossil fuel norms
A roadmap for rapid decarbonization
Sustainability transitions
The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual foundations from institutional theory
The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C
Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions
Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy
Lessons from Germany’s hard coal mining phase-out
Creative destruction or mere niche support? Innovation policy mixes for sustainability transitions
Sustainability transitions
Inconvenience versus Rationality
Climate Change in the Media
The role of capital costs in decarbonizing the electricity sector
Regime destabilization in energy transitions
Integrating social science in energy research
Policy mixes for incumbency
Addressing uncertainty in decarbonisation policy mixes – Lessons learned from German and European bioenergy policy
The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa
Is energy policy a public issue? Nuclear power in Poland and implications for energy transitions in Central and East Europe
What's next for the European coal heartland? Exploring the future of coal as presented in German, Polish and Czech press
Stewards or sticklers for change? Incumbent energy providers and the politics of the German energy transition
Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions
Political economies of climate change
Linking EU climate and energy policies
Business Strategy and International Environmental Governance
Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions
A climate for business
The Palgrave handbook of the international political economy of energy
Down the black hole
Comparing energy transitions in Germany and Spain using a political economy perspective
Sequence and alignment of external pressures in industry destabilisation
Dinosaurs in transition? A conceptual exploration of local incumbents in the swiss and German energy transition
The Political Economy of Energy Transitions
EU Climate Norms in East‐Central E urope
The more the merrier? Assessing the impact of enlargement on EU performance in energy and climate change policies
Transition Management for Sustainable Development
Contesting climate change
Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions
Harnessing theories of the policy process for analysing the politics of sustainability transitions
Sustainability transitions and the state
The political economy of the 'just transition
| Unique citing works | 63 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |