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Conspiracy theories and the energy transition

Kacper Szulecki gave a keynote lecture at a webinar hosted by TU Delft, entitled “Conspiracy theories and the energy transition Russian oil conspiracies, The blackout myth and Governance through fear” The effects of conspiracy thinking on climate change attitudes are larger than previously argued (Uscinski and Olivella 2017). Yet the impact of conspiracy theories onto […]

Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review

Authors: Kacper Szulecki & Indra Overland Journal Article in: Energy Research & Social Science (2020)  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101768 . ‘Energy democracy’ has evolved from a slogan used by activists demanding a greater say in energy-related decision-making to a term used in policy documents and scholarly literature on energy governance and energy transitions. This article reviews the academic literature using […]

What’s next for the European coal heartland? Exploring the future of coal as presented in German, Polish and Czech press

Authors: Jan Osička, Jörg Kemmerzell, et al. Journal Article in: Energy Research & Social Science (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101316. This article addresses the future of coal in the European coal heartland, i.e. in the area of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, which together account for nearly 57% of coal consumption and 87% of coal-mining jobs in […]

European Green Deal: between ambition and feasibility

The Von der Leyen Commission displays unprecedented environmental policy ambitions and appears to be the greenest in EU history. However, it is also facing challenges of overwhelming magnitude, and it will work under societal pressure unseen in this policy area. Can its flagship European Green Deal deliver?  by Kacper Szulecki —16 January 2020 Image courtesy of Fridays […]

A new article on the history of Poland’s environmental​ movement

ESPRi’s Julia Szulecki and Kacper Szulecki published an article entitled “Between domestic politics and ecological crises: (De)legitimization of Polish environmentalism” in the high impact journal Environmental Politics. The article is available in Open Access. An earlier version of the paper, richer in historical detail, appeared in 2017 as an ESPRi Working Paper 6/2017.

Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland’s pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change

Authors: Piotr Żuk and Kacper Szulecki, Journal Article in: Energy Research and Social Science (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101485 Is populist politics a threat to ambitious climate action and decarbonisation of energy systems? With the coinciding challenges of an alleged global ‘populist wave,’ and the growing visibility of a planetary climate crisis, this issue has gained relevance. […]

Europe’s greenest Commission ever faces an unprecedented challenge as the clock ticks

Author: Kacper Szulecki, Blog post at: Dahrendorf Forum (2020) The Von der Leyen Commission displays unprecedented environmental policy ambitions and appears to be the greenest in EU history. However, it is also facing challenges of overwhelming magnitude, and it will work under societal pressure unseen in this policy area. Can its flagship European Green Deal […]

Securitization and state encroachment on the energy sector: Politics of exception in Poland’s energy governance

Author: Kacper Szulecki, Journal Article published in: Energy Policy (2020) (available in Open Accesss) DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111066  As energy security becomes a key topic of policy debates, not least in Central and Eastern European states, which are vulnerable to gas supply disruptions from Russia, it has been suggested that EU energy policy becomes ‘securitized’. However, full securitization […]

Between domestic politics and ecological crises: (De)legitimization of Polish environmentalism

Authors: Julia Szulecka and Kacper Szulecki, Journal Article published in: Environmental Politics (forthcoming 2020) (available in Open Accesss)DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1674541  While political environmentalism played an important role in social mobilization against communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s conservationism appeared to be in decline across the region, and external pressure from European […]

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