Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world

Henry, Matthew S.; Bazilian, Morgan; Markuson, Christopher

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101668

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“…Matthew Henry and colleagues (this volume [33] ) take an equally useful global analytical lens, reinforcing the recent call for a “Just Transition.” This debate about a “Just Transition” is ongoing across many countries and provinces, with at least 14 national commissions, policies, or task forces in place across Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, the United States and Vietnam. As Table 2 indicates, a “Just Transition” is backed by powerful coalitions and groups around the world.…”

Section: Connections With Energy Justice and Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 86%

Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology

Sovacool

Rio

Griffiths

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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The global Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and overburdened struggling health care systems and other social institutions around the world. While such impacts of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, the implications of the disease for energy and climate policy are more prosaic. This Special Section seeks to offer more clarity on the emerging connections between Covid-19 and energy supply and demand, energy governance, future low-carbon transitions, social justice, and even the practice of research methodology. It features articles that ask, and answer: What are the known and anticipated impacts of Covid-19 on energy demand and climate change? How has the disease shaped institutional responses and varying energy policy frameworks, especially in Africa? How will the disease impact ongoing social practices, innovations and sustainability transitions, including not only renewable energy but also mobility? How might the disease, and social responses to it, exacerbate underlying patterns of energy poverty, energy vulnerability, and energy injustice? Lastly, what challenges and insights does the pandemic offer for the practice of research, and for future research methodology? We find that without careful guidance and consideration, the brave new age wrought by Covid-19 could very well collapse in on itself with bloated stimulus packages that counter sustainability goals, misaligned incentives that exacerbate climate change, the entrenchment of unsustainable practices, and acute and troubling consequences for vulnerable groups.

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Section: Connections With Energy Justice and Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 86%

Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology

Sovacool

Rio

Griffiths

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

153

108

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“…In this case, COVID-19 could act as a starting point to change some behaviors relative to the business-as-usual system. This intermediate position is those with the greatest presence in the analyzed literature and is based on the consolidation of a "Green New Deal" [18,[33][34][35] centered on sustainable consumption, reduction of the economy in scale, promotion of the circular material economy [9,11,19,30,32,36,37] and supported by the "Green Economy" and "Blue Economy" [38][39][40][41]. Considering the profound implications of a paradigm shift, thinking about a gradual process of change seems more likely in the short and medium term.…”

Section: Debates On the Post-pandemic Scenario At The Global Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post COVID-19 Pandemic Scenarios in an Unequal World Challenges for Sustainable Development in Latin America

Morea

2020

World

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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted numerous academic debates about its impact on health and the economy and on possible post-pandemic scenarios across the globe. The discussion has been focused on whether the pandemic will mark a turning point and a unique opportunity to generate radical changes in the economic and productive system, or if the State assistance role will, once again, serve to rescue the capitalist system. There is a common link between these two opposing positions in that there will be a crossroads for the future of humanity, regarding the treatment that will be given to nature. However, some of the most optimistic visions seem to underestimate the different realities that the world presents. This paper proposes a combined analysis about the possible post-pandemic scenarios that are debated at a global level, and the impacts of the pandemic in the context of Latin America to fill an information gap and to aid understanding on what the possible post-pandemic scenarios for Latin America could be. The first findings show that the debates about the post-pandemic future at the global level could be grouped between: the return to “business as usual”; a managed transition; and a paradigm shift. For Latin America, the post-pandemic scenario will be highly conditioned on how the new world order is reconfigured, and moving on a path towards sustainability for the region in the post-pandemic scenario seems to be linked to two possibilities: a kind of revolt or revolution fostered by the social bases; or a solution of a global nature that favors making long-term decisions. If this does not occur, the most likely scenario seems to be a return to business as usual.

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“…Guiding society between social conditions and planetary boundaries, as proposed by Raworth (2017), provides an organising framework for GER post-Covid. Meanwhile, the theory and practice of degrowth (Kallis, 2018), social ecology (Clark, 2009) and sustainable transition (Henry et al, 2020, Rosenbloom, et al, 2020), provide useful entry points to understand the structural barriers to social and ecological transformation.…”

Section: A Turning Point?mentioning

confidence: 99%