Hammaadi, Ananda Daffa Nashif (2024) Towards a Just Transition: the EU’s Green Energy Transition Policies and the Marginalization of the Places ‘that Don’t Matter’. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
This thesis explores how the role of the Global South is framed in the European Union’s (EU) energy transition policies. Despite the EU’s claim that this transition policy is a just and beneficial one to the Global South, findings from independent bodies suggest otherwise, reporting patterns of old colonial relations exploiting the Global South. It is with this knowledge in mind that this thesis aims to examine the language of the policies and question the intentions and meaning behind the EU’s international green transition policy. The thesis will utilize a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach, analyzing the EU’s Communications on the Green Deal and on the Hydrogen Strategy. Reports from independent bodies published by the associations Ukama and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) will be used to corroborate the findings of the CDA on the two EU Communications. The results suggest that the EU’s green transition policy might not be as just and beneficial as the EU claims it to be. The cooperations that are framed by the EU as being contributive to the sustainable growth of the Global South, in reality, do not live up to such claims. Instead, the language used by the EU positions these partnerships in a way that frames the Global South primarily as suppliers to advance the EU’s own gains, rather than being equal beneficiaries of the proposed sustainable development partnerships. In summary, it can be argued that the EU’s international energy transition policy risks reinforcing neo-colonial hierarchies that marginalize the Global South, undermining the principles and intentions of a just transition.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Koeppen, M.L.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 09:59 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 09:59 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4598 |
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