Irina Kustova

• PhD
• University of Trento

As the EU prepares for the next political cycle, policymakers are poised to continue their efforts to deliver on the objectives of the European Green Deal and the Fit for 55 package, to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Reflecting on the policy experiences of the 2019–2024 political cycle, the implementation of the European Green Deal will not b...

Aligned with the WP5 objective of the C4U Project, this report aims to identify and analyze existing public policy options to address the needs and concerns of stakeholders in line with an engaging narrative for CCUS. The report contributes to the C4U Project with a comparative analysis of industrial CCUS policy instrumentation in the five selected...

In response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on its industrial carbon management strategy, C4U project findings have been synthetised to inform the Communication’s proposal of an EU strategy to create a single market for CO2 transport and storage services by 2030 .

Most scholars have described the European Union (EU) as a liberal actor in its approach to international climate and energy governance. This paper argues that the EU has shifted to a strategic approach, including the use of legislation and the adoption of negotiating positions that promote a political agenda. This is illustrated through an analysis...

Climate change policy cannot be the first priority of the EU for the immediate future. However, in spite of the corona-crisis the urgency of climate change mitigation has not disappeared. The post-corona recovery can both put the EU’s decarbonisation progress back on track – after low-carbon investments will inevitably take a hit – but the EU’s Gre...

The low-carbon transition, for example in line with the European Commission’s proposed Long-Term Strategy¹ net-zero² target by 2050 or the Commission President-elect ‘climate neutrality’ objective, will require a very large increase in electricity, especially for low-carbon solutions in mobility, heating and cooling and the decarbonisation of energ...

The widespread assumption that a choice of market reforms presupposes a non-securitised path of energy policies makes the desecuritisation of energy politics an essentially rationalist-driven framework. This study argues that market liberalisation is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for the “normalisation” of energy politics. It sugge...

This study argues that the development of electricity systems is a crucial aspect of the region’s sustainable development. Regulatory and technical cooperation among national power markets can help improve energy security in the South Caucasus. However, the concerted operation of electrical power systems might also be affected by competitive region...

Hindered by unceasing disagreements between the European Union and Russia throughout the 2000s, the Energy Charter Process is currently attempting to adapt to the changing market environment and regional political context. Its Modernization, announced in 2010, aims at the Process’ geographical expansion and a comprehensive reassessment of the Energ...

http://www.energycharter.org/fileadmin/DocumentsMedia/CCDECS/2016/CCDEC201607.pdf

Attacks on oil and gas infrastructures by terrorists and criminals in places like Nigeria, Colombia, Iraq and Russia have amplified the vulnerability of critical energy infrastructures (CEIs) to deliberate physical attacks. Being unable or unwilling to protect CEIs, many national governments have made attempts to alleviate these vulnerabilities thr...

The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has aggravated numerous gas-related disputes and highlighted the overall politicisation of energy issues between the EU and Russia. These tensions have unveiled a need to address the growing disarray in EU-Russia energy relations, to assess the role of EU integration in multilateral energy processes, and to classify variou...

http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1541/

Sanctions on Russia may result in serious unintended consequences