Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions
In this Perspective, we suggest that research on just transitions and energy justice needs to better attend to the increasingly important trade-offs arising from issues related to speed and acceleration of low-carbon transitions. We identify and elaborate two important tensions that policymakers fac...
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| description | In this Perspective, we suggest that research on just transitions and energy justice needs to better attend to the increasingly important trade-offs arising from issues related to speed and acceleration of low-carbon transitions. We identify and elaborate two important tensions that policymakers face when they want to simultaneously achieve both just and rapid low-carbon transitions. First, the way in which participatory processes may increase justice but slow the speed of action; and second the way in which incumbent mobilization can accelerate transitions but entrench injustices. Such an analysis shifts the focus from mapping justice dimensions to acknowledging the inevitable trade-offs and winners and losers produced by transition processes as a first step to better navigating them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1a85a5694a94119ac8d521e9c1e69cd2023-08-09T15:28:26ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262022-01-0117404100610.1088/1748-9326/ac622aNavigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitionsPeter J Newell0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5371-7668Frank W Geels1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8778-4757Benjamin K Sovacool2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4794-9403International Relations at the University of Sussex , Brighton, United KingdomManchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester , Manchester, United KingdomCenter for Energy Technologies, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University , Aarhus, Denmark; Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Business School , Brighton, United KingdomIn this Perspective, we suggest that research on just transitions and energy justice needs to better attend to the increasingly important trade-offs arising from issues related to speed and acceleration of low-carbon transitions. We identify and elaborate two important tensions that policymakers face when they want to simultaneously achieve both just and rapid low-carbon transitions. First, the way in which participatory processes may increase justice but slow the speed of action; and second the way in which incumbent mobilization can accelerate transitions but entrench injustices. Such an analysis shifts the focus from mapping justice dimensions to acknowledging the inevitable trade-offs and winners and losers produced by transition processes as a first step to better navigating them.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac622acarbontransitionsenergy justiceenergy transitionsequity |
| spellingShingle | Peter J Newell Frank W Geels Benjamin K Sovacool Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions Environmental Research Letters carbon transitions energy justice energy transitions equity |
| title | Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions |
| title_full | Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions |
| title_fullStr | Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions |
| title_short | Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions |
| title_sort | navigating tensions between rapid and just low carbon transitions |
| topic | carbon transitions energy justice energy transitions equity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac622a |
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