THE BUDGET OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND GREEN ENERGY: PERCEPTIONS, ACTIONS, AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The European Green Deal has expanded the climate perspective of the European Union (EU) and put a sustainable and environmentally friendly energy strategy at the centre. For the first time in the history of the EU integration, the EU budget has been designed for prioritizing the climate strategy and conditioned in accordance with the climate targets. Within this context, in this study, the common budget priorities, Green Deal targets and internal/external challenges of the EU are addressed together, aiming to answer the questions to what extent the global climate change is perceived as an emergency by the EU and whether the EU’s green transformation approach is sufficient and applicable. The study is conducted in the light of current literature and data on the EU’s climate approach and financing instruments in order to answer these questions. The study concludes that although the climate model reflected in the EU’s new budget is an important step in combating the climate crisis, difficulties could not be overcome due to the intra-EU dynamics/lack of consensus, and unless a systemic transition in a global sense takes place, the dramatic transformation targeted by the Green Deal would remain discursively assertive, but actionally ambiguous.

Keywords

• European Union
• Multiannual Financial Framework
• Green Deal
• Climate Crisis
• Renewable Energy

AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ BÜTÇESİ VE YEŞİL ENERJİ: ALGI, EYLEM VE ZORLUKLAR

Abstract

Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı, Avrupa Birliği’nin (AB) iklim perspektifini genişletmiş ve sürdürülebilir, çevre dostu bir enerji stratejisini merkeze koymuştur. AB bütçesi de entegrasyon tarihinde ilk kez iklim stratejisine öncelik verecek şekilde tasarlanmış ve iklim hedeflerine göre koşullandırılmıştır. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmada, küresel iklim değişikliğinin AB tarafından ne ölçüde “acil bir durum” olarak algılandığı ve AB’nin yeşil dönüşüm stratejisinin yeterli ve uygulanabilir olup olmadığı sorularına yanıt verebilmek amacıyla, AB’nin ortak bütçe öncelikleri, Yeşil Mutabakat hedefleri ve Birlik içi/dışı zorluklar bir arada ele alınacak ve tartışılacaktır. Bu amaçla, AB’nin iklim yaklaşımı ve finansman araçlarına ilişkin mevcut literatür ve verilerden yararlanılmıştır. Çalışmada, AB’nin yeni bütçesine yansıyan iklim modelinin iklim kriziyle mücadelede önemli bir adım olmasına rağmen, Birlik-içi zorluklar aşılamadığı takdirde ve küresel anlamda sistemik bir geçiş olmaksızın, Yeşil Mutabakat’ın hedeflediği dramatik dönüşümün söylemsel olarak iddialı fakat eylemsel olarak belirsiz kalacağı sonucuna varılmıştır.

Keywords

• Avrupa Birliği
• Çok Yıllı Mali Çerçeve
• Yeşil Mutabakat
• İklim Krizi
• Yenilenebilir Enerji

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