TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kleanthis, Nikos
A1  - Stavrakas, Vassilis
A1  - Ceglarz, Andrzej
A1  - Süsser, Diana
A1  - Schibline, Amanda
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Flamos, Alexandros
T1  - Eliciting knowledge from stakeholders to identify critical issues of the transition to climate neutrality in Greece, the Nordic Region, and the European Union
T2  - Energy research & social ccience
N2  - There are considerable differences in the pace and underlying motivations of the energy transition in the different geographical contexts across Europe. The European Union's commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 requires a better understanding of the energy transition in different contexts and scales to improve cooperation of involved actors. In this article, we identify critical issues and challenges of the European energy transition as perceived by stakeholders and investigate how these perceptions vary across geographical contexts. To do so, we couple a policy document analysis with research based on stakeholder engagement activities in three different scales, national (Greece), regional (Nordic Region) and continental scale (European Union). Our findings show that stakeholder perspectives on the energy transition depend on contextual factors underlying the need for policies sensitive to the different transition issues and challenges in European regions. They also reveal cross-cutting issues and challenges among the three case studies, which could lead to further improvement of the cross-country collaboration to foster the European energy transition.
KW  - challenges
KW  - case studies
KW  - energy policy
KW  - energy transition
KW  - climate neutrality
KW  - stakeholder engagement
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62453
SN  - 2214-6296
VL  - 93
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -