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The ship has sailed : On the risk of undermining the legitimacy of EU Climate Policy through the implementation of EU ETS 2
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| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Recenzovaný odborný článek |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Energy Policy |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421526001552?via%3Dihub |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115221 |
| Klíčová slova | eu ets; eu; czechia; green deal; legitimacy; energy governance |
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| Popis | This article examines the implementation politics of EU ETS 2 and their implications for the legitimacy and political sustainability of the EU's 2040 and 2050 climate targets. By extending carbon pricing to buildings and road transport, EU ETS 2 directly affects household energy and mobility costs, increasing its social visibility and politicisation. While designed to support decarbonisation, the system has triggered growing concerns among Member States regarding price volatility, distributive impacts, and administrative preparedness. Focusing on Czechia, the article analyses how delayed transposition, weak horizontal coordination, and a narrowly configured policy network may have limited the state's capacity to design credible compensation mechanisms and manage distributive risks. We shows how legitimacy challenges may emerge from the interaction of governance capacity constraints, insufficient public communication, and populist politicisation of carbon pricing. The Czech case is situated within broader EU implementation patterns, demonstrating that similar concerns are shared across many Member States, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, where lower-income and fossil-fuel-dependent regions face above-average exposure to ETS-2-related cost increases. These tensions reflect not only distributive vulnerability, but also structural weaknesses in the governance of climate policy implementation. The article argues that the political viability of EU ETS 2 will depend on vulnerability-based targeting of Social Climate Fund resources, stronger inter-ministerial and multi-level coordination, and more inclusive governance frameworks capable of translating price-based climate instruments into socially legitimate outcomes. Without such reforms, ETS 2 risks reinforcing public mistrust, energising Eurosceptic narratives, and weakening support for EU decarbonisation efforts. |
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