POLICY BRIEF article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1616839
This article is part of the Research TopicEnvironmental degradation, health, and socioeconomic impactsView all 16 articles
The impact of green energy transition at local level. How just is the fast implementation of decarbonization policy in West Macedonia?
Provisionally accepted
- University of West Attica, Athens, Greece
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The stability of Earth's ecosystem is being seriously challenged by the pressing issues related to humaninduced global warming and the climate crisis. The European political ambition of decarbonization has brought challenging circumstances for the European coal regions concerning job loss and regional economic decline. Until recently, coal activities offer direct employment to around 208,000 people across Europe. In this context, local lignite-based activities put at risk almost 12000 direct and indirect jobs in West Macedonia. For this purpose, the current study analyzes the impact of decarbonization policy in West Macedonia on the life quality of the local population as well as the investigation of local factors' effect on the successful implementation of this accelerated green energy transition strategy at community level.
Keywords: energy security1, thermal power station2, energy policy3, just transition4, local communities5
Received: 23 Apr 2025; Accepted: 10 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Boulogiorgou and KALDELLIS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: JOHN (IOANNIS) KALDELLIS, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece
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