MSC THESIS SUMMARIES

Masters Students 2024

Casimir Krage

Empowering Youth in Global Climate Governance: Insights from COP28 and the UNFCCC

Aljoscha Karg

Between ‘Paradigm Shift’ and ‘Business-As-Usual’ Climate Finance—The Just Energy Transition Partnerships: Towards A Just and Inclusive Fossil Fuel Phase Out in the Global South?

Stijn van der Erf

Flying forward: Unraveling conditions for airports to reduce emissions and to phase out Fossil Fuels

Valentina Couceiro

Unveiling Shadows: The Role of Lobbying Transparency Measures in Reinforcing Power Imbalances between Fossil Fuel and Green Interests Groups

Mathijs Blom

SMEs in the Energy Transition: The impact of the CSRD on Dutch SMEs

Sean van Beek

Natural Gas: A Bridge to Nowhere? An analysis of the role of Natural Gas in Dutch Climate Policy, examining its potential as a Bridge Fuel for an Inclusive Transition away from Fossil Fuels while addressing the risks of Carbon Lock-In

Jelmer Bruijn

Navigating Towards Sustainability: Unraveling Conditions for Port Authorities to Reduce Emissions and for Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: A case study of the Port of Amsterdam

Justin van Vuren

Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: The Social Justice Implications Related to the Distribution of Fossil Fuels

Marit Heppe

Starting and Stopping New Oil and Gas Projects: A Comparative Frame and Thematic Analysis of Mainstream Media and Activist Groups in the Offshore UK Cambo and Rosebank Oilfields

Masters Students 2023

Janne Luise Piper

“We Won’t Just Grab and Go”– A Pathway to Just Transitions? Exploring Africa-EU Cooperation regarding…

Bram Donker

Mediators stuck between Regulations: The Role of Dutch Utility Companies in Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

Febe van Buren

Climate Action Commitments Communicated: A Comparison of Unilever’s Corporate Climate Policies and Public Messaging in…

Robin Hids

A Changing Labor Market: Just Transition or Collateral Damage?: The role of labor in a…

Louis Siouw

Phasing out Fossil Fuels with Hydrogen Fuel: Energy Transition in the Netherlands

Bart de Looze

Framing Fossil Fuels: A case study of the German LNG Terminals

Ingrid Ronglan

Illuminating Inclusiveness: Promoting Electrification for an Inclusive Energy Transition: The Role of Off-Grid Solar Systems

Luc van Vliet

Deconstructing Neo-Colonialism: Germany and Senegal’s Potential Gas Partnership and its Implications for Leaving Fossil Fuels…

Phani Varnava

What kind of challenges do European Union Member States face and under what conditions does…

Masters Students 2022

Marika Schmitz

No reason to stay is a good reason to go: The Energy Charter Treaty influencing the fossil fuel phase-out

Giuliana Gentile

Purposeful Deception on the Verge of Delusion: Addressing the fossil fuels industry’s narratives causing the impasse within the energy transition

Lynn Haasloop Werner

A Carbon Lock-In is in the Pipeline: An analysis of how carbon lock-in caused by fossil fuel dependency influences an inclusive energy transition away from fossil fuels in a North-South context through a case study of Argentina

Blanca Reemst

The Energy Transition and Divestment of Fossil Fuel Assets

Marc Janvier-Olsen

Fossil fuels in an evolving energy landscape: leapfrogging development or developing stranded assets?

Vivien Schüßler

The Climate Policy Landscape and Fossil Fuel Phase-out in South Africa

Chu Thuy Quynh Anh

Fossil Fuel Phaseout in the International Climate Regime: A Study on the Willingness to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production in the Nationally Determined Contributions

Ellen Snaathorst

Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: The Social Justice Implications Related to the Distribution of Fossil Fuels

Glenn Dijks

Unlocking the Carbon lock-in in the Netherlands: A case study on the challenges and conditions for phasing out fossil fuels

Thomas Cordes

Governing the power: The possibility of establishing an inclusive German energy system

Inès Boivin

Working in Oil and Gas, at What Price? The Challenges International Organizations Face in Implementing an Inclusive Just Energy Transition Away from Fossil Fuels and its Impacts on Migrant Labour

Juliette Linn

Time To Walk the Talk: Analysing the Contextual Conditions that Enable and/or Hamper an Inclusive Just Energy Transition from a Fossil-Intensive Economy to a Low-Carbon Economy

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