Scholars
Etienne Schneider
University of Vienna
Based in
Austria
Europe
Etienne Schneider is a political scientist interested in the politics and political economy of climate change mitigation and social-ecological transformation. In his research, he focuses specifically on the intersection of industrial and climate policy in the EU in light of present geopolitical shifts and backlash to climate policy. His current research project, funded through the APART-GSK programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), examines the emerging industrial policy and politics of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and residual emissions in the EU, and how this links to the EU’s carbon management policy agenda. Additional research foci include demand-side climate change mitigation, historical-materialist policy-analysis, green hydrogen and structural limitations of the decarbonisation state.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Austria GermanyFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Geoengineering Net ZeroHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Brad, A., Schneider, E., Dorninger, C., Haas, W., Hirt, C., Wiedenhofer, D., Gingrich, S. (2025). Existing demand-side climate change mitigation policies neglect avoid options, Communications Earth & Environment 6(773). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02800-5
Brand, U., Hausnost, D., Brad, A., Eyselein, G., Maneka, D., Pichler, M., Schneider, E. (2025). Structural Limitations of the Decarbonization State, Nature Climate Change 15(927–934). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02394-y
Dietz, K., Dorn, F., Schneider, E. (2025). Towards a global perspective on interrelated green hydrogen transitions: The case of Colombia, Political Geography, 103395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103395
Dorninger, C., Gingrich, S., Haas, W., Brad, A., Schneider, E., Wiedenhofer, D. (2025). Slow and unequal reduction in Austrian household GHG footprints between 2000 and 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology 29(5), 1651-1665. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70074
Brad, A., Schneider E. (2025). Carbon removal, mitigation deterrence and the politics of target separation. Evidence from the EU 2040 climate target negotiation, Environmental Research Letters 20: 054074. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add0c9
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103697
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.https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1268736
Brad, A., Schneider, E. (2023): Carbon dioxide removal and mitigation deterrence in EU climate policy: Towards a research approach, Environmental Science & Policy 150, 103591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103591
Schneider, E., Brad, A., Brand, U., Krams, M., Lenikus, V. (2023): Historical-materialist policy analysis of climate change policies, in: Garcia, A., Scherrer, C., Wullweber, J. (Hg.): Elgar Handbook on Critical Political Economy and Public Policy. Edward Elgar, 110-126. Pichler, M., Krenmayr, N., Brand, U., Schneider, E. (2021): EU industrial policy: Between modernization and transformation of the automotive industry, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 38, 140-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.12.002