Marine Cornelis

in Produzione e consumo sostenibili tra politiche legislative e prassi adattive a cura di Lucia Ruggeri e Adele Emilia Caterini

some retrofitting policies and programmes, far from increasing living standards and making more quality affordable housing avail- able, push the most vulnerable households to be evicted from their homes due to rent increases. This phenomenon is known as renoviction. Could the Renovation Wave trigger a Renoviction Wave? And what could EU and national policymakers do to avoid it?

This is the second edition of the Energy Poverty Handbook, which was originally published by the Greens/EFA and the Buildings Performance Institute Europe in 2016 with a view to examining the causes and effects of energy poverty. This updated version expands upon the findings of the original Energy Poverty Handbook to consider the best practices that can be employed to tackle the issue, in parallel with the causes and effects of energy poverty.

The European Green Deal, a set of measures put forward by the von der Leyen Commission at the beginning of its term in December 2019, has the ambitious and overarching goal of enabling the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050. Encompassing a wide range of developments in many cross-cutting EU policies, the decarbonisation of the EU economy will require a radical transformation of the EU energy system. This process has been already in motion for the last two decades. At the same time, it poses a… Show more

The European Green Deal, a set of measures put forward by the von der Leyen Commission at the beginning of its term in December 2019, has the ambitious and overarching goal of enabling the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050. Encompassing a wide range of developments in many cross-cutting EU policies, the decarbonisation of the EU economy will require a radical transformation of the EU energy system. This process has been already in motion for the last two decades. At the same time, it poses a great challenge from the social perspective in ensuring fairness and justice for the parts of the EU population directly affected by the process. From those two angles, the issue of energy poverty, still prevalent and affecting a considerable amount of the EU population, is very relevant. Its effective mitigation represents a precondition for achieving a just and fair energy transition. Developed in three main parts, this chapter explores the steps taken so far by the EU institutions to address energy poverty while identifying the policy and regulatory gaps and inefficiencies. Exploring energy poverty through the wider lenses of energy justice and based on the analysis of scientific literature, EU official documents and empirical data, this Chapter aims at showcasing the importance of placing energy poverty alleviation at the heart of all energy-related EU policies. Show less

How do ordinary people access justice? This book offers a novel socio-legal approach to access to justice, alternative dispute resolution, vulnerability and energy poverty. It poses an access to justice challenge and rethinks it through a lens that accommodates all affected people, especially those who are currently falling through the system. It raises broader questions about alternative dispute resolution, the need for reform to include more collective approaches, a stronger recognition of… Show more

How do ordinary people access justice? This book offers a novel socio-legal approach to access to justice, alternative dispute resolution, vulnerability and energy poverty. It poses an access to justice challenge and rethinks it through a lens that accommodates all affected people, especially those who are currently falling through the system. It raises broader questions about alternative dispute resolution, the need for reform to include more collective approaches, a stronger recognition of the needs of vulnerable people, and a stronger emphasis on delivering social justice. The authors use energy poverty as a site of vulnerability and examine the barriers to justice facing this excluded group.

The book assembles the findings of an interdisciplinary research project studying access to justice and its barriers in the UK, Italy, France, Bulgaria and Spain (Catalonia). In-depth interviews with regulators, ombuds, energy companies, third-sector organisations and vulnerable people provide a rich dataset through which to understand the phenomenon.

The book provides theoretical and empirical insights which shed new light on these issues and sets out new directions of inquiry for research, policy and practice. It will be of interest to researchers, students and policymakers working on access to justice, consumer vulnerability, energy poverty, and the complex intersection between these fields.

The book includes contributions by Cosmo Graham (UK), Sarah Supino and Benedetta Voltaggio (Italy), Marine Cornelis (France), Anais Varo and Enric Bartlett (Catalonia) and Teodora Peneva (Bulgaria). Show less

This paper scrutinizes existing policy efforts to address energy poverty at the governance scale of the European Union (EU) and its constituent Member States. Our main starting point is the recent expansion of energy poverty policies at the EU level, fuelled by the regulatory provisions of the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, as well as the establishment of an EU Energy Poverty Observatory. Aided by a systematic and customized methodology, we survey the extensive scientific body of work… Show more

This paper scrutinizes existing policy efforts to address energy poverty at the governance scale of the European Union (EU) and its constituent Member States. Our main starting point is the recent expansion of energy poverty policies at the EU level, fuelled by the regulatory provisions of the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, as well as the establishment of an EU Energy Poverty Observatory. Aided by a systematic and customized methodology, we survey the extensive scientific body of work that has recently been published on the topic, as well as the multiple strategies and measures to address energy poverty that have been formulated across the EU. This includes the principal mitigation approaches adopted by key European and national institutions. We develop a framework to judge the distributional and procedural justice provisions within the recently adopted National Energy and Climate Plans, as an indicator of the power, ability and resolve of relevant institutions to combat the causes and consequences of energy injustice. We also provide a research and policy agenda for future action, highlighting a series of scientific and decision-making challenges in the European and global context. Show less

Third pan-EU energy poverty report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory

Policies, especially in the European Union, encourage government and privately funded programs to engage in “energy efficiency first” strategies. Those policies lead to the moderation of energy demand and are long-term solutions that not only protect households from price fluctuations and energy poverty, but also allow people to reduce their environmental footprint and save money in the long term. Energy poverty usually occurs when a household is unable to secure a level and quality of domestic… Show more

Policies, especially in the European Union, encourage government and privately funded programs to engage in “energy efficiency first” strategies. Those policies lead to the moderation of energy demand and are long-term solutions that not only protect households from price fluctuations and energy poverty, but also allow people to reduce their environmental footprint and save money in the long term. Energy poverty usually occurs when a household is unable to secure a level and quality of domestic energy services—space cooling and heating, cooking, appliances, information technology etc.—sufficient for its social and material needs. In the Global North, energy poverty is generally attributed to internal and external factors such as low incomes, energy-inefficient homes and high energy prices, while in the Global South, the infrastructural lack of access to more technologically advanced energy carriers is the main culprit. Energy poverty in developing countries is gaining interest thanks to the seventh Sustainable Development Goal: Affordable and clean energy. Still, so far, in the European Union and in the rest of the world, little has been done to sew together the two concepts and include the most vulnerable part of the population in an approach that reconciles environmental and climate risks with social issues. In practice, energy poverty and efficiency agendas are rarely coordinated. Energy efficiency and a better pooling of the resources (known also as “sufficiency”) could lead to higher resiliency to the social and climate crisis. Show less

We argue that debates at EU and national level do not address the daily reality of people living in energy poverty. The preliminary findings of our ESRC funded project suggest that local actors (e.g., NGOs) make a substantial contribution to bridging the gap between top-down policy and the energy poor. We argue that these actors represent an adaptive response to the inherent limitations of state and supra-national action and, therefore, play a key role in the governance of energy poverty. In… Show more

We argue that debates at EU and national level do not address the daily reality of people living in energy poverty. The preliminary findings of our ESRC funded project suggest that local actors (e.g., NGOs) make a substantial contribution to bridging the gap between top-down policy and the energy poor. We argue that these actors represent an adaptive response to the inherent limitations of state and supra-national action and, therefore, play a key role in the governance of energy poverty. In presenting this argument, we suggest, as an avenue for future research, nodal governance as a lens through which to understand the role local actors play in the governing order for tackling energy poverty. The article provides an exploratory analysis of these issues, discussed through the selection of four illustrative examples in Italy, France, Catalonia, and England. Show less

by Bouzarovski and Thomson.
I performed the Analysis of the Energy poverty strategies within the 28 Draft National Energy and Climate Plans

I have contributed to a report on the current state of the art in energy poverty measurement, overviewing existing knowledge gaps and new approaches. My contribution with the ESRC Just Energy team focuses on complaint service metrics, which have been identified as major gaps we should urgently address.

Article on the divestment from fossil fuel strategy of the EIB for a Mexican audience

The Market Design part of the “Clean Energy For All” package will be adopted in the first part of 2018. The European Commission affirms the intention of the “Clean Energy For All” package is to put the consumer at the centre. But is the package truly going to deliver and make profound changes in consumer lives?

NEON welcomes the EU's energy union strategy but fears that without consumer trust in protection mechanisms within the energy sector consumer empowerment will unfortunately remain a castle in the air.