Baltic Rim Economies 1/2022
Special issue on energy and environment
Published on the 28th of February 2022
The European Green Deal and its impact on the Baltic Sea Region
“The European Commission confirmed the European Green Deal as the top priority of this Commission already in December 2019. It sets out the key priorities to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while ensuring that the transition is just and inclusive for all. This is, like President Ursula Von der Leyen said, Europe’s “man on the moon moment”. To get there, the EU has put into the law the higher target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at least 55% by 2030, compared to 2020 levels.”
Kadri Simson
Commissioner for Energy
European Commission
The Greener the Deal, the Greener our Future
“Climate change remains one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Science has been very clear that we must strive to keep the global temperature rise to 1,5 degrees Celsius to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change. Although internationally progress was achieved in the context of the Glasgow Climate Pact, much work remains ahead of us to implement the promises we have made in Paris and in Glasgow.”
Artūrs Toms Plešs
Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development
Republic of Latvia
Don’t forget the blue over the green
“The European Green Deal is a well known European legislative framework. It gives principles and guidance on how to reach climate neutrality and an overall environment friendly approach within the EU legislation and everything which is linked to it such as funding criteria or quotas.”
Rasmus Andresen
Member of the European Parliament
Head of Delegation of the German Greens
European Green Deal and circular economy in Finland
“The greatest challenges of our time are climate change, loss of biodiversity and environmental pollution. By harming the climate and the environment, we are only harming ourselves. Nature or the atmosphere do not need people for anything, but people cannot do without a functioning ecosystem. Our wellbeing in the future is linked to meeting climate and environmental challenges.”
Saara-Sofia Sirén
MP, Member of Environment Committee and Grand Committee
Parliament of Finland
Baltic Rim Economies 1/2022 includes the following Expert articles
Kadri Simson: The European Green Deal and its impact on the Baltic Sea Region
Janusz Steinhoff: Challenges for the Polish power sector
Artūrs Toms Plešs: The Greener the Deal, the Greener our Future
Erki Savisaar: The European Green Deal and Estonia
Jovita Neliupšienė, Osvaldas Šmitas & Audrius Masiulionis: Channelling the competitive advantage by the greening of the economy
Niels Fuglsang: Energy efficiency can solve three major crises in Europe
Rasmus Andresen: Don’t forget the blue over the green
Riho Terras: The Green Deal must be a thought-out transition not a precipitous switch
Saara-Sofia Sirén: European Green Deal and circular economy in Finland
Sari Rautio: How can the Green Deal start the renaissance of Baltic Sea Region?
Rüdiger Strempel: The cost of degradation: a price tag on the Baltic Sea
Andreas Goldthau & Nick Sitter: The EU Green Deal and economic competitiveness
Michael Krug & Maria Rosaria Di Nucci: Renewable energy communities under the Green Deal: Enablers of a socially just transition?
Gerlind Wagner-Vogel: How to engage citizens to establish renewable community energy projects
Simon Bonnel: Infrastructure for Europe’s Green Deal
Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk: Poland and the European Green Deal
Krzysztof Tomaszewski: The European Green Deal from the perspective of the Polish energy sector
Thomas Sattich, Rasa Morgan & Espen Moe: Lithuania – ahead of the European Green Deal
Reinis Āboltiņš: Embracing the mentality of sustainability
Maili Vilson: Can Estonia achieve the goals of the EU’s Green Deal?
Marco Siddi: The European Green Deal and EU-Russia relations
Simone Tagliapietra: Developing a green industrial policy for the European Green Deal
Juha Marttila: Green Deal and Finnish agriculture
Ilsa Godlovitch: ICT and energy efficiency: the two sides of the equation
Eugen Rusu: Perspectives of wind energy extraction in the Baltic Sea in the context of the European Green Deal
Kamila Pronińska: Baltic offshore wind role in Poland’s energy transition
Oliwia Mróz-Malik: Sea of opportunities – offshore wind energy development potential in Baltic Sea
Andrey Nikishin: Emissions-free electricity for Baltic sustainability
Vaclovas Miskinis & Arvydas Galinis: Energy efficiency trends and driving factors in the Baltic States
Jin-Li Hu: Energy transition under the ESG trend
Erik Trømborg: Biomass for heating – opportunities in the Baltic region
Dilip Khatiwada: Bioenergy as a low carbon energy: Promoting bio-based economy in the Baltic Sea Region
Astrida Miceikienė: The role of digitalization in the development of bioeconomy businesses
Ole Bøssing Christensen & Erik Kjellström: Climate change for the Baltic Region until 2100
Inga Dailidienė: Indicators of climate change in the Baltic Sea region
Aistė Balžekienė: Behavioral change towards climate neutrality in Baltic States
Matúš Mišík: A fossil fuel that supports decarbonisation
Jānis Krūmiņš & Māris Kļaviņš: Geological storage of CO2 in the Baltic States
Salvatore Ruggiero: Energy citizenship and the low-carbon transition
Alla Shogenova: Carbon neutral Baltic Sea Region by 2050
Augusto Bianchini, Riccardo Farneti & Jessica Rossi: Sustainable phosphorus management in the Baltic Sea Region
Susanna Vanhamäki, Johanna Leino & Esa Kokkonen: Smart specialisation supporting circular economy in the Baltic Sea region
Jonas Fischer: The important role of stakeholder collaboration in local energy transitions
Elena A. Tretiakova: Environmental characteristics of economic dynamics in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia
Joanna Pociask-Karteczka: High mountains in the Baltic Sea Basin – „water towers” of the region
Kari Liuhto: The European Green Deal and five myths related to natural gas
Baltic Rim Economies review is co-funded by the Centrum Balticum Foundation, the City of Turku, the Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT, the John Nurminen Foundation and the Port of Turku.
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