MSC THESIS SUMMARIES
Masters Students 2025
Anica Aguilera
Urban Retrofitting to Advance Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: Barriers, Opportunities, and Insights from Chicago, USA
Finn van der Straaten
Dutch carbon credit trading companies and Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground (LFFU): The Voluntary Carbon Market mechanisms, Strategic perceptions, and Societal impact
Tim van der Vooren
Contextual Trends in Private Climate Change Litigation Against the Fossil Fuel Industry: A Global Analysis
Emma Orazietti
Bridging the Climate Financing Gap: Using Tax Reform as a measure to help Governments Leave Fossil Fuels Underground
Alice Rota
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Simone Heesakkers
Envisioning Future Urban Mobility: A Fossil-Free Urban Mobility System
Paula Haerle
Locked-In Fossil Fuels: The Relationship between Sovereign External Debt and Fossil Fuel Production Dependencies in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Lauren Chatterton
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Jitske Fransens
Footprints and Firepower: Conditions for Military Decarbonisation and Readiness
Masters Students 2024
Casimir Krage
Empowering Youth in Global Climate Governance: Insights from COP28 and the UNFCCC
Valentina Couceiro
Unveiling Shadows: The Role of Lobbying Transparency Measures in Reinforcing Power Imbalances between Fossil Fuel and Green Interests Groups
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
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
Mathijs Blom
SMEs in the Energy Transition: The impact of the CSRD on Dutch SMEs
Ailyn Ceballos Jimenez
A Political Approach to Leave Fossil Fuels Underground: Lessons from Colombia
Stijn van der Erf
Flying forward: Unraveling conditions for airports to reduce emissions and to phase out Fossil Fuels
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
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
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?
Masters Students 2023
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…
Louis Siouw
Phasing out Fossil Fuels with Hydrogen Fuel: Energy Transition in the Netherlands
Bram Donker
Mediators stuck between Regulations: The Role of Dutch Utility Companies in Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Bart de Looze
Framing Fossil Fuels: A case study of the German LNG Terminals
Robin Hids
A Changing Labor Market: Just Transition or Collateral Damage?: The role of labor in a…
Janne Luise Piper
“We Won’t Just Grab and Go”– A Pathway to Just Transitions? Exploring Africa-EU Cooperation regarding…
Febe van Buren
Climate Action Commitments Communicated: A Comparison of Unilever’s Corporate Climate Policies and Public Messaging in…
Masters Students 2022
Giuliana Gentile
Purposeful Deception on the Verge of Delusion: Addressing the fossil fuels industry’s narratives causing the impasse within the energy transition
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
Thomas Cordes
Governing the power: The possibility of establishing an inclusive German energy system
Blanca Reemst
The Energy Transition and Divestment of Fossil Fuel Assets
Glenn Dijks
Unlocking the Carbon lock-in in the Netherlands: A case study on the challenges and conditions for phasing out fossil fuels
Marika Schmitz
No reason to stay is a good reason to go: The Energy Charter Treaty influencing the fossil fuel phase-out
Ellen Snaathorst
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: The Social Justice Implications Related to the Distribution of Fossil Fuels
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
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
Vivien Schüßler
The Climate Policy Landscape and Fossil Fuel Phase-out in South Africa
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
Marc Janvier-Olsen
Fossil fuels in an evolving energy landscape: leapfrogging development or developing stranded assets?