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Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-12, 07:45 authored by Peter NewellPeter Newell, Frank W Geels, Benjamin SovacoolBenjamin SovacoolIn 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.
History
Publication status
- Published
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Journal
Environmental Research LettersISSN
1748-9326Publisher
IOP PublishingExternal DOI
Issue
4Volume
17Page range
1-5Article number
a041006Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
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