Equity, energy and just transitions

Sovacool, Benjamin

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Title

Equity, energy and just transitions

Author(s)

Sovacool, Benjamin

Issue Date

2023-09-27

Keyword(s)

• energy
• justice
• transition
• climate change
• equity

Abstract

The urgency, emergency, and necessity of low-carbon transitions is a given in most regions of the world. But low-carbon innovations, technologies, practices and policies can unintentionally exacerbate a series of inequities and inequalities with energy production and use. This presentation introduces conceptions of Just Transitions and energy justice as a way to remediate these concerns. It utilizes a novel framework looking at demographic inequities (between groups), spatial inequities (across geographic scales), interspecies inequities (between humans and non-humans), and temporal inequities (across present and future generations). This framework enables not only the identification of multiple and often interlinked inequities; it also points the way towards how to make low-carbon transitions more sustainable and just, with direct implications for business practices (and supply chains) as well as energy and climate policy.

Has Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noX8_yjLewQ&list=PLBCBPVHKoeNfoY-ufVcGjg8ZnEZGF6-ir&index=2

Series/Report Name or Number

Sustainable Seminar Series

Type of Resource

• text
• moving image

Language

en

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