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About the topic:
The Green Deal is premised on a successful marriage of the EU's environmental and climate goals and its economic and social goals. The decarbonisation of the energy sector is a crucial piece of this puzzle. Before, the Clean Energy Package had prioritised the electricity sector's decarbonisation. The Green Deal, in contrast, expands the energy transition to the gas and transportation sectors, where low-carbon biogases and biofuels produced from biowaste are presented as alternatives for replacing fossil fuels, especially natural gas, petrol and diesel fuels. In addition to the climate goals of the Green Deal, the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has motivated the set of even more ambitious targets and the speed of the decarbonisation of the gas sector.
Increasing the production of biogas and biofuels from biological waste and residues from agriculture, food, forestry is at the core of the EU's circular energy system. The EU's energy policies and law setting production and consumption targets need to be coherent with a plethora of other policies and legislative proposals regulating waste recycling and regulatory incentives derived from finance, carbon tax reforms and emission trade schemes.
The presentation is based on the first chapter of the ongoing edited book project entitled "The EU circular energy system and the Green Deal: biowaste, biogas and biofuel", co-edited with Josephine van Zeben and to be published by Edward Elgar (2023). It has the purpose of introducing the preliminary findings of the comparison between waste and energy regulatory framework. The authors formulate the hypothesis that the internal fragmentation of EU institutions into sector-based silos leads to an issue of coherence-effectiveness nexus - a two layers issue. The horizontal fragmentation of EU institutions into sector-based competencies may lead to the incoherence of policy goals and measures across different sectors encompassing the EU's circular energy system. The lack of coherence is then aggravated with a well-known governance issue in the EU, namely the effectiveness issues caused by the divergence of transposition strategies adopted by the member states.
About the speaker
Lucila de Almeida (PhD in Law, EUI) is a Part-time Assistant Professor at European University Institute, a tenured Assistant Professor of Energy Law at the Wageningen University & Research, and co-Director of the online course Regulatory Delivery at the Florence School of Regulation. https://fsr.eui.eu/people/de-almeida/