Towards a Just Energy Transition: Implications for communities in lower- and middle-income countries
Year: 2022
Type: report
Abstract: More frequent or intense floods, heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and typhoons devastate people’s homes, livelihoods and the natural world. A clean energy transition is urgently needed to reduce carbon emissions and prevent the impacts worsening. Wealthy countries have the prime historic responsibility for the climate crisis and therefore for its mitigation. But as the clean energy transition gathers speed, it inevitably also impacts lower-income, lower-emitting countries and communities. This research report, written by 20 co-authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the US and Europe, investigates the implications of the energy transition for them, and asks how the world can achieve a truly just, as well as fast, transition. The findings highlight the stark choice facing humanity. If the transition is undertaken with justice and respect for communities’ rights at its heart, it offers an unprecedented opportunity to simultaneously mitigate the climate crisis and reduce poverty and inequality. Conversely, an unjust transition, which entrenches or exacerbates inequalities, risks generating public resistance and slowing the transition with devastating human consequences.
DOI: 10.21201/2022.9936
Authors: Dante Dalabajan, Ruth Mayne, Blandina Bobson, Hadeel Qazzaz, Henry Ushie, Jacobo Ocharan, Jason Farr, Jorge Romero, Karla Priego, Laura Victoria Gomez Correa, Leandro Gomez Ortiz, Ludovica Socci, Marianne Buenaventura Goldman, Maria Rosario Felizco, Nafkote Dabi, Nkateko Chauke, Oskar Haq, Pilar Martinez Arellano, Sandra Patricia Mojica Enciso
Institution: Oxfam
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4310682002