SAFE ENERGY RELATIONS: UNFOLDING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE WITH THE ADVENT OF HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES

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Recently, the hydrogen economy has gained considerable momentum with the effects of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the primary purposes of this thesis are: 1. To examine the relationship between legal, political, economic, and technical dimensions of the European Union’s (EU) decarbonization with hydrogen agenda within the precautionary principle (PP) conceptual framework. 2. To explore spaces where precautionary thinking is relevant for the advent of hydrogen technologies in the EU. 3. To make concrete policy suggestions for the EU and Turkey accordingly. The literature review’s first pillar is the EU and Turkish laws, official and strategic documents, directives, regulations, and project reports on energy, environment, and hydrogen. The second pillar includes academic and legal readings of PP. Legal doctrinal methodology and qualitative content analysis determine intersections between hydrogen and PP. Findings include the standardization of gas quality emerging as a precautionary matter in the EU, lack of consensus on hydrogen safety resulting in its non-presence in official EU documents, and legal scope and authority problems for Turkey. As an overall finding, hydrogen risk chain - hydrogen value chain incompatibility is discussed. The ‘innovation principle’ is also discussed. Its relationship with the precautionary principle as non-competing elements is debated regarding PP’s nonpresence in the EU hydrogen law and policies. Finally, precautionary policy suggestions for the European Union are presented and a preliminary regulatory analysis is made for Turkey to prepare herself to host the hydrogen economy.

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Hydrogen, Decarbonization, Precautionary Principle, Environmental Law and Policy, Risk

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A. Ş. Kart, “SAFE ENERGY RELATIONS: UNFOLDING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE WITH THE ADVENT OF HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.