TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying, improving, and investing in national commitments to just transition
T2 - reflections from Latin America and the Caribbean
AU - McCauley, Darren
AU - Pettigrew, Kerry A.
AU - Heffron, Raphael J.
AU - Droubi, Sufyan
N1 - © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - A 1.5 °C world relies on the development of modern renewable energy sources in Latin America and the Caribbean. Whilst existing research offers insights into national case studies, our study responds to a lack of region-wide analysis. To identify the relative level of national commitment to a just transition in the region, this study collects, analyses, and visualizes global data from eight different sources. It uses a ranking method to analyse relative performance. To find where policy improvement is most urgently needed, trends are extrapolated on fossil fuel dependency, subsidies, and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as renewable energy production and international finance, through the lens of distributional, procedural, and restorative justice. We call for a new approach to international clean energy finance which promotes greater procedural justice whilst ensuring that green energy deployment leads to higher levels of meaningful employment.
AB - A 1.5 °C world relies on the development of modern renewable energy sources in Latin America and the Caribbean. Whilst existing research offers insights into national case studies, our study responds to a lack of region-wide analysis. To identify the relative level of national commitment to a just transition in the region, this study collects, analyses, and visualizes global data from eight different sources. It uses a ranking method to analyse relative performance. To find where policy improvement is most urgently needed, trends are extrapolated on fossil fuel dependency, subsidies, and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as renewable energy production and international finance, through the lens of distributional, procedural, and restorative justice. We call for a new approach to international clean energy finance which promotes greater procedural justice whilst ensuring that green energy deployment leads to higher levels of meaningful employment.
KW - Just transition
KW - Climate transition
KW - Energy transition
KW - Latin America
KW - Caribbean
KW - Energy economics
KW - Renewable energy
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85147114687&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.indic.2023.100225
DO - 10.1016/j.indic.2023.100225
M3 - Article
SN - 2665-9727
VL - 17
JO - Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
JF - Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
M1 - 100225
ER -