The European Union has embarked on the transformation of its energy and electricity system to low-carbon energy sources, just like Germany and many other countries. This chapter analyzes the European strategy for low-carbon transformation in relation to specific aspects and features of the...

Overlapping climate policies can interact in undesired ways. This paper is the first to employ an event study to investigate the interaction of national coal phase-outs and the European emissions trading system (EU ETS) by empirically examining how allowance prices reacted to coal phase-out...

This paper compares different just transition pathways in China, the European Union and the United States of America by comparing the current state of the coal sector and just transition policies away from coal. How can social justice in the energy transition be achieved under different models...