Dr. Etienne Schneider

Project Staff
ÖAW-APART Scholarship

Department of Development Studies
Sensengasse 8, 4th Floor
1090 Vienna
etienne.schneider@univie.ac.at
T: +43 1 4277 641 23

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I’m a political scientist interested in the politics and political economy of climate change mitigation and social-ecological transformation. In my research, I focus specifically on the intersection of industrial and climate policy in the EU in light of present geopolitical shifts in the global political economy.
My 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.
In addition, I’m involved in a research project funded by the Austrian Klima- und Energiefonds, aiming to identify leverage points for demand-side mitigation in Austria and beyond, with the potential to reduce the need for deploying novel CDR methods.
As part of my focus on industrial and climate policy, I’m also interested in the EU’s and Germany’s hydrogen policies and their transnational interconnections with contested transition processes and green extractivism outside of Europe, particularly in Latin America.


Research Interest

  • Industrial Policy
  • International and EU Climate Policy
  • Carbon Dioxide Removal
  • Global Political Economy
  • European monetary integration and uneven development
  • Materialist state theory and policy analysis

 

 

Research Projects

Since October 2022: Household GHG footprints and Austrian climate policy: identifying leverage points for demand-side mitigation (lead: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Simone Gingrich), funded by the Austrian Klima- und Energiefonds - Link
Since March 2025: The Industrial Political of Carbon Dioxide Removal in the EU (IPOL-CDR), funded through the APART-GSK programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Selected 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., Syrovatka, F. (2024) (Hg.): Politische Ökonomie der Zeitenwende. Perspektiven der Regulationstheorie. Westfälisches Dampfboot.
  • Schneider, E. (2023): Neue deutsche Europapolitik. Währungsunion und Industriepolitik zwischen Eurokrise und geopolitischer Wende. Frankfurt, Main/New York: Campus.
  • Brad, A., Schneider, E. (2023): Carbon dioxide removal and mitigation deterrence in EU climate policy: Towards a research approach, Environmental Science & Policy 150, 103591.
  • 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.
  • Schneider, E. (2023): NextGenerationEU and the future of the European Monetary Union. Shifting interests and new fractures in the German power bloc, Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(5), 1298-1317.
  • 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.