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
Ailyn Ceballos Jimenez
A Political Approach to Leave Fossil Fuels Underground: Lessons from Colombia
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
Khalid Awni Mohammad Hawamdeh
Sustainable Energy Planning for Fossil Fuel Transition: Strategies and Policies for a Greener Dubai
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