Etienne Schneider

Etienne Schneider is a political scientist who focuses on climate and energy policy, European economic integration, and the political economy of green industrial policy. His research centers on how the current dynamics of geopolitical competition are changing industrial and energy policy strategies, and what forms of asymmetric, "green" international division of labor are emerging in this context. Additionally, he examines political conflicts over the integration of carbon removal methods (CDR) as well was carbon capture and storage (CCS) in international and European climate policy.

During his research stay at the University of Kassel as a guest researcher in the area of “International Relations with a focus on Latin America” from 1 December 2024 until 31 May 2025, he will investigate the political economy of the German and European hydrogen transition and its transnational interconnections with transition processes and export strategies in Latin America. In this context, he also explores new fault lines in climate and industrial policy regarding the definition of so-called hard-to-abate emissions and the allocation of residual emissions.

Selected recent publications:

Brad, A., Schneider, E., Maneka, D., Hirt, C., Gingrich, S. 2024. The politics of carbon management in Austria: Emerging fault lines on carbon capture, storage, utilization and removal, Energy Research & Social Science 116, 103697.

Brad, A., Haas, T., Schneider, E. 2024. Whose negative emissions? Exploring emergent perspectives on CDR from the EU’s ‘hard to abate’ and fossil industries, Frontiers in Climate 5, 1268736.

Schneider, E. 2023. Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift, New Political Economy 28(2), 241-258.

Brad, A., Schneider, E. 2023. Carbon dioxide removal and mitigation deterrence in EU climate policy: Towards a research approach, Environmental Science & Policy 150, 103591.