The roadmap for creating energy baronies
The Roadmap for Moving to a low-carbon economy in 2050 states that the objective of the European Union policy for Energy and Climate is to reduce its CO2 emissions to 80 % below 1990 levels. First, the article explains that decarbonisation within this framework does not only mean a transition towards renewable energy, but also changes in the use of ‘clean’ fossil fuels, in type and location. Secondly, it shows that the investment, infrastructures and treaties proposed to carry out this transformation will lead to the creation of bigger monopolies, and to the regionalization of the European energy space. Finally, we conclude by saying that if measures to offset the power of the monopolies are not applied, the outcome of these reforms will be the creation of energy baronies.
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Aurèlia Mañé EstradaPh.D. in Economic and Business Sciences from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Master in International Relations from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is a lecturer at the UB where she teaches subjects related to economic policy, the political economy of energy, and the economies of the Arab world. His main research topics are "oil economies" along with energy issues, from a triple perspective: political economy, geo-energetics and historical-systemic, and among his most recent publications are the books Argelia en transición hacia una segunda república (Algeria in transition towards a second republic, Icaria, 2019) and El gran negocio mundial de la energía (The big global energy business, RBA, 2016). On the other hand, he has collaborated with Casa Asia, where he created and directed the Observatory of Central Asia and is a member of the Economic History and Development Group (Industry, Business and Sustainability) of the University of Barcelona, of the Energy and Climate Change Group of the Royal Institute of International Studies of the Royal Elcano Institute and a member of the Group for the Study of Contemporary Arab and Muslim Societies (GRESAM, UCLM).
