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Cross-border impacts of climate change affect the energy transition: Insights from the Finnish energy sector

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  • Fanny Groundstroem

    (University of Helsinki)

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The world is currently in the midst of an energy transition, in which renewable and low-carbon energy is replacing the use of fossil fuels. Along the way, however, planning for and adapting to impacts of climate change is urgently needed, as these are projected to intensify in the future, despite ambitious mitigation efforts. Since the low-carbon energy transition is likely to involve many international interdependencies and connections between countries and regions, assessments of cross-border impacts of climate change, i.e., consequences of climate change that occur remotely from the location of their initial impact, are of utmost importance to ensure the decarbonisation of society is safe and sustainable. This paper utilises expert interviews and a general morphological analysis with the shared socioeconomic pathways to situate national decarbonisation efforts within a global context and identify cross-border impacts of climate change that may affect the energy transition, using the Finnish energy sector as a case study. Interestingly, many of the global development trends that were found to have a boosting effect on the Finnish energy transition, also increased the risk from cross-border climate change impacts, stressing the importance of rigorous adaptation planning. The findings affirm the need for studying national energy transitions from a global perspective and highlight the tendency of climate change impacts to be transmitted across borders via complex pathways. The study offers valuable insights into the importance of cross-border impacts for adaptation planning pertinent to any country or region currently engaged, or planning to engage, in the global low-carbon transition.

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  • Fanny Groundstroem, 2023. "Cross-border impacts of climate change affect the energy transition: Insights from the Finnish energy sector," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(11), pages 1-24, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:176:y:2023:i:11:d:10.1007_s10584-023-03619-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-023-03619-9
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