RETHINKING THE GREEN TRANSITION: EUROPE AND BEYOND – ENERGY, INDUSTRY AND FOOD SECTORS

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 9, 113 - 122, 27.12.2025

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This article critically examines the European Green Deal (EGD) and its implications for the energy, industry, and food sectors, both within Europe and beyond. While the EGD sets ambitious goals for achieving climate neutrality by 2050, the analysis reveals significant implementation challenges, technological uncertainties, and contradictions between long-term targets and current practices. In the energy sector, despite progress in renewable energy deployment, the EU remains dependent on fossil fuels and unproven carbon capture technologies. In the industrial sector, the Green Deal Industrial Plan promotes clean tech investments but risks reinforcing market-oriented logics and unequal financial allocations. In the food sector, the Farm to Fork strategy offers a comprehensive sustainability agenda, yet faces resistance from agribusiness lobbies and political divisions across member states.
Crucially, the article highlights how the EGD’s global dimension extends its political and economic influence beyond EU borders. The article argues that, for the EGD to lead a truly just transition, it must move beyond technocratic fixes and adopt a more transformative and globally inclusive socio-ecological vision of sustainability.

Anahtar Kelimeler

European Green Deal , Green Transition , Energy , Industry , Food

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