The EU and RES: From Fighting Climate Change to Fighting Russia
The EU and RES: From Fighting Climate Change to Fighting Russia

Author(s): Zuzanna Nowak
Subject(s): Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Russian Aggression against Ukraine
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: RES; EU; Russia; climate policy; security policy; foreign policy
Summary/Abstract: Renewable energy sources (RES) are a key tool in EU climate policy. They can also be an important remedy to the problems of the shortage of energy resources and political abuses of control over them by producers and suppliers. However, at the current level of development of RES technologies, their use is associated with risks for energy security. For the EU, which wants to accelerate the development of its renewable energy potential in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a simultaneous goal should be to reduce the vulnerability of the European energy market to renewable energy challenges, such as cyberattacks or lack of access to critical raw materials.

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