Distributional Challenges of Sustainability Policies—The Case of the German Energy Transition

Gawel, Erik; Korte, Klaas; Tews, Kerstin

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“…This induces a negative effect on consumers' welfare [4,5]. In recent years, China has become the world's largest vehicle market and has a distinct institutional and regulatory environment for gasoline and diesel pricing [6,7]. China's state-owned gasoline stations raise oil prices when international crude oil prices go up, but they do not lower oil prices as much as the gasoline stations in the U.S. do when international crude oil prices go down.…”

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Rockets and Feathers: The Asymmetric Effect between China’s Refined Oil Prices and International Crude Oil Prices

Chen

Huang

2017

Sustainability

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This paper employs an asymmetric error-correction model (AECM), and uses monthly data on wholesale prices of gasoline and diesel products in China and international crude oil prices from February 2006 to October 2013 to examine whether China's gasoline and diesel prices adjust asymmetrically to international crude oil price changes. Our empirical results suggest that increases and decreases in international oil prices have asymmetric effects on both wholesale prices of gasoline and diesel fuel in China, and that both increases and decreases in international oil prices have a greater effect on diesel prices than on gasoline prices in China. If there is no change in the maximum retail price, the asymmetry results from the transmission of wholesale prices in China with international oil prices. However, if there is a change in maximum retail prices, both international oil prices and maximum retail prices cause the asymmetry.

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Rockets and Feathers: The Asymmetric Effect between China’s Refined Oil Prices and International Crude Oil Prices

Chen

Huang

2017

Sustainability

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“…Precisely regarding just energy transitions, hence with more restricted publications, literature warns that perceptions can diverge significantly from the information reflected by indicators, potentiate, or hinder the evolution of the energy transition, and be influenced by stakeholders to determine the results (Gawel et al, 2015;Gölz & Wedderhoff, 2018;Groh & Ziegler, 2018;Kuschan et al, 2022). Considering their potential, as observed in fields like Sustainable Welfare, the presence of eco-social perceptions in the population is key to fostering a social and environmental synergy (Fritz & Koch, 2019;Koch & Fritz, 2014;Otto & Gugushvili, 2020), and subsequently a just transition.…”

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Profiles and categorisation of perceptions and attitudes among European citizens regarding the just energy transition

García-García

2023

RIPS

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Just energy transitions have re-emerged from their unionist roots to gain increasing momentum politically and scholarly, especially driven by the SDGs. In the movement from unionism to mainstream debate, the notion has acquired diverse nuances that determine its normative scope. Four major approaches have been theoretically proposed to classify views currently: statu quo, managerial, structural, and transformative. Implicitly, these approaches observe two dimensions: individualism versus collectivism, and green growth versus post-growth. Although this classification has been useful to study the positions of groups of individuals in international organisations, NGOs, and activist movements, this paper suggests testing if it remains operative in contrast with individuals’ attitudes and perceptions. Through basic statistics, clustering algorithms, and correspondence analysis applied to the most recent version of the European Social Survey (2020-2022), this contribution finds three key insights. First, although the empirical four-group classification resembles some of the theoretical traits, it does not fit the approaches. The individualism versus collectivism dimension is operational, but the environmental dimension is difficult to determine. Second, empirically, twenty-three optimal groups exist. Three groups congregate more than 90% of respondents. The remaining marginal but optimal groups point to the relevance of observing isolated profiles in the study and political planning of just energy transitions. Finally, human values show greater explanatory capacity than sociodemographic and political variables.

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“…The majority of citizens in Germany support the energy transition and are generally supportive of renewable energy systems [2,20,40,41,60,127]. At the same time, the energy transition is associated with various political challenges.…”

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Trade-Offs in German Wind Energy Expansion: Building Bridges Between Different Interests, Values and Priorities.

Reitz

Goshen

Ohlhorst

2021

Preprint

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Background: In order to achieve climate targets, a transition to low-carbon energy production is necessary. However, conflicts between different interests, values and priorities, particularly at the community level, can constrain this transition. This paper aims to analyze lines of conflict and opportunities for building bridges between conflicting interests in the expansion of wind energy in Germany at the local level, in order to achieve successful implementation of wind energy projects.Results: Our analysis of four cases of local-level wind energy projects in Germany shows that limited local options for action reinforce the need for local actors to maximize the benefits of energy transition projects. In addition to the conflict over scarce space, the lines of conflict at the local level run primarily along the dimensions of costs and benefits, winners and losers. Real or perceived procedural and distributive injustices have the potential to fuel resistance to wind energy projects in the selected cases. Wind energy projects were successfully implemented in the four selected cases despite the presence of local opposition.Conclusions: The results show that, by integrating procedural and distributive justice and offering tailored solutions, community support for expansion of renewable energy projects can be enhanced. Further, the paper advances the concept of societal sponsorship, which is the willingness of members of a community to bear, or tolerate, decisions despite conflicting opinions. This concept is presented as an alternative to the concept of acceptance, which implies a positive, supportive attitude, and that protest should be avoided or overcome instead of recognized as a contribution to the debate. Societal sponsorship can be enhanced when procedural and distributive justice are adequately addressed.

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Distributional Challenges of Sustainability Policies—The Case of the German Energy Transition

Cited by 20 publications

References 14 publications

Rockets and Feathers: The Asymmetric Effect between China’s Refined Oil Prices and International Crude Oil Prices

Rockets and Feathers: The Asymmetric Effect between China’s Refined Oil Prices and International Crude Oil Prices

Profiles and categorisation of perceptions and attitudes among European citizens regarding the just energy transition

Trade-Offs in German Wind Energy Expansion: Building Bridges Between Different Interests, Values and Priorities.

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