{"title":"Innovation in technology: A game changer for renewable energy in the European Union?","authors":"Wang Xinyu, Liu Haoran, Khalid Khan","doi":"10.1111/1477-8947.12450","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As environmental solutions emerge, technological innovations are driving the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. These innovations are game changers in transforming the energy sector and are driving the rapid expansion of renewable energy. Hence, we analyze the nexus between technological innovations and renewable energy in the European Union. The results reveal that technology has a meaningful impact on renewable energy in one-third of countries. This influence is driven by advancements in energy generation, storage, infrastructure, supportive policies, and incentives, which are crucial in promoting technology innovation and adoption, accelerating the growth of renewable energy. On the other hand, renewable energy is causing technological innovation in one-third of countries due to the development of renewable energy, which promotes targeted technological innovation to exploit resources, enhance integration, and increase efficiency. A balanced approach works for countries lacking a strong link between the two factors.","PeriodicalId":49777,"journal":{"name":"Natural Resources Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Natural Resources Forum","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-8947.12450","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As environmental solutions emerge, technological innovations are driving the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. These innovations are game changers in transforming the energy sector and are driving the rapid expansion of renewable energy. Hence, we analyze the nexus between technological innovations and renewable energy in the European Union. The results reveal that technology has a meaningful impact on renewable energy in one-third of countries. This influence is driven by advancements in energy generation, storage, infrastructure, supportive policies, and incentives, which are crucial in promoting technology innovation and adoption, accelerating the growth of renewable energy. On the other hand, renewable energy is causing technological innovation in one-third of countries due to the development of renewable energy, which promotes targeted technological innovation to exploit resources, enhance integration, and increase efficiency. A balanced approach works for countries lacking a strong link between the two factors.
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Natural Resources Forum, a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, focuses on international, multidisciplinary issues related to sustainable development, with an emphasis on developing countries. The journal seeks to address gaps in current knowledge and stimulate policy discussions on the most critical issues associated with the sustainable development agenda, by promoting research that integrates the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Contributions that inform the global policy debate through pragmatic lessons learned from experience at the local, national, and global levels are encouraged.
The Journal considers articles written on all topics relevant to sustainable development. In addition, it dedicates series, issues and special sections to specific themes that are relevant to the current discussions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Articles must be based on original research and must be relevant to policy-making.
Criteria for selection of submitted articles include:
1) Relevance and importance of the topic discussed to sustainable development in general, both in terms of policy impacts and gaps in current knowledge being addressed by the article;
2) Treatment of the topic that incorporates social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable development, rather than focusing purely on sectoral and/or technical aspects;
3) Articles must contain original applied material drawn from concrete projects, policy implementation, or literature reviews; purely theoretical papers are not entertained.
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