Editorial: Special Issue - Energy Transitions in the Global South and Africa: Policy Imperatives, System Dynamics and Challenges

Abstract

Editorial

Injury, energy poverty and climate change

“…The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 has recognised the multiple impacts of energy impoverishment and globally formalised the call for an inclusive transition to safe and health-promotive energy. However, the management of such an energy transition, especially one that specifically favours the impoverished will not be easy, and most likely constrained by the needs of global corporate interests, capitalist profit driven economies, and global and regional institutional incapacity to support such an energy transition 4…”