Between ‘Paradigm Shift’ and ‘Business-As-Usual’ Climate Finance—The Just Energy Transition Partnerships: Towards A Just and Inclusive Fossil Fuel Phase Out in the Global South? The Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) between a consortium of Global North countries and South Africa, Indonesia, Viet Nam and Senegal represent a vanguard climate finance agreement aimed at expediting the […]
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: The Social Justice Implications Related to the Distribution of Fossil Fuels. With the collective aim of limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, the pressure to diminish carbon emissions increases. Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground (LFFU) seems to be the most viable and equitable direction in this transition. LFFU
No reason to stay is a good reason to go: The Energy Charter Treaty influencing the fossil fuel phase-out. This decade is decisive for climate change action (IPCC, 2022). As governments take increasingly bold steps, regulatory changes are likely to have a major impact on fossil fuels protected under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). The
The Energy Transition and Divestment of Fossil Fuel Assets. Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius will require a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. News sources declare that climate change mitigation pressures are increasing divestment of fossil fuel assets toward stakeholders with less transparency obligations, thereby hindering the realization of international climate goals.
Unlocking the Carbon lock-in in the Netherlands: A case study on the challenges and conditions for phasing out fossil fuels. To limit global temperature rise, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be massively reduced. However, many countries are locked-into fossil fuel use. This means that market systems and policies will give an advantage to fossil fuel
Fossil fuels in an evolving energy landscape: leapfrogging development or developing stranded assets? Climate change is forcing societies to mitigate as well as adapt to its consequences. In 2015, the Paris Agreement was reached. Tied to this notion are nationally determined commitments, whereby tributaries to the Paris Agreement operationalise their mitigation and adaptation plans based
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Time To Walk the Talk: Analysing the Contextual Conditions that Enable and/or Hamper an Inclusive Just Energy Transition from a Fossil-Intensive Economy to a Low-Carbon Economy. To mitigate the imminent effects of climate change, fossil duel dependent economies are required to phase out of their fossil fuel industries and transition to renewable energy sectors. In
A Carbon Lock-In is in the Pipeline: An analysis of how carbon lock-in caused by fossil fuel dependency influences an inclusive energy transition away from fossil fuels in a North-South context through a case study of Argentina. Current development trajectories are heavily reliant on fossil fuels and in order to mitigate the negative effects of
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Purposeful Deception on the Verge of Delusion: Addressing the fossil fuels industry’s narratives causing the impasse within the energy transition. In order to meet the targets set by the Paris Agreement, fossil fuels need to be left underground. Despite being aware of their environmental impact, fossil fuels companies have purposefully hindered climate action and the
Governing the power: The possibility of establishing an inclusive German energy system. An energy system that is affordable, secure, and environmentally sustainable. Those are the goals of the German government, as they set them out in 2010. This research analyzes how institutional forms of governance shape the possibility of creating an inclusive German energy system,
