New publication in the journal Sustainability
Frame promotion processes generated by the EU’s bet on hydrogen
2023/10/16
In decarbonising energy-intensive sectors, the EU will continue to rely on energy imports from partner countries. In a new article, Clean Circles researchers analyse framing processes in the public discourse that have emerged since the EU's strategy shift towards hydrogen.
Using a discourse analysis based on more than 32,000 media reports from the Nexis database, the article looks at media discourse as a vehicle for actors' framing efforts, with a particular focus on debates about external partner countries. It thus focuses on the discourses on the EU’s hydrogen approach in a complex environment with diverging interests of stakeholders from inside and outside the EU, thereby examining debates.
The article is part of the journal's special issue Governing Green Energy Trade: Challenges and Opportunities.
The publication
Plank, Friedrich, Johannes Muntschick, Arne Niemann, and Michèle Knodt. 2023. “External Hydrogen Relations of the European Union: Framing Processes in the Public Discourse Towards and within Partner Countries” Sustainability 15, no. 20: 14757. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014757
