A jeste ke geopolitice a vztahu Nemecko / Rusko clanek z roku 2019
Moscow’s position vis-à-vis the climate agreements has always been ambivalent. Yet it was instrumental in the Kyoto Protocol coming into force. Russia
signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 and formally joined in autumn 2019 (Reuters,
2019). On the one hand, the country is not only the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, but also a major fossil fuel exporter. On the other, Russia argues that
its energy mix is relatively clean and that emissions have decreased significantly
in the 1990s. Beyond that, increased climate ambitions and dedicated actions can
be seen as a blow to the Russian economic model, but also as a development that
lessens Russia’s geopolitical influence.
Berlin in turn has embarked on the Energiewende. A“Green Energy Transition“
has been on the German political agenda since the 1980s, but has become an
explicit part of policies with the Energy Concept of 2010, which were revised in
2011 under the impact of Fukushima and accomplished by a nuclear phase-out
by 2022. This article explores how the German (and EU) energy transformation
has affected the German–Russian gas relations and takes a long-term perspective
to explore how the alliance evolved and changed, how the underlying paradigms
and notions have been adapted over time and, last but not least, how (power)
relations have been affected by that.
German–Russian gas relations in face of the energy transitionhttps://rujec.org/article/55478/