Energy Law and Sustainable Development

(Elective)

Academic Teachers

Glavinis P.

Professor

Kosmides T.

Assistant Professor

Manou D.

Special Laboratory Teaching Staff

Description and Content

This course examines the legal aspects of the creation of the Single Energy Market (Energy Union) in the EU. In particular, it examines energy sources and energy products, hydrocarbons and the conditions for their exploitation, upstream and downstream markets, the transport of energy resources, renewable energy sources, environmental risks and how to deal with them, climate change and the climate crisis, as well as the policies for the transition to a decarbonized economy. Emphasis is also placed on the geopolitical implications of the EU’s dependence on energy sources of foreign origin and on the efforts made to decarbonize the EU.

Detailed Curriculum

  1. Introduction: Sources, Products, Actors, Markets, Principles and Institutions
  2. EU Energy Law: Building an Energy Union
  3. The Oil and Gas Value Chain (importance of oil and gas, basic economic and technical approach: measurement, benchmarks, pricing, activities)
  4. Oil and Gas Law: Upstream Sector I (legal framework)
  5. Oil and Gas Law: Upstream Sector II (contracts)
  6. Transportation of hydrocarbons
  7. Natural Gas
  8. Electricity
  9. Sustainable Development: Decarbonization and Circular Economy
  10. Sustainable Development: Climate Change
  11. Sustainable Development: Renewable Energy Sources
  12. Sustainable Development: Renewable Energy Sources
  13. Sustainable Financing and Green Financing
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