Building synergies between climate change mitigation and energy poverty alleviation

The international community has become increasingly concerned with sustainable development and particularly with preventing climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic and global recession of 2020 will exacerbate the situation not just for 2020–2021, but for many years to come. Sadly, it is a game-changer. The necessity to solve problems of poverty (energy poverty) and inequality, as well as growth and climate change mitigation, now haunts intellectuals, forecasters, and politicians. These three problems constitute the global energy trilemma (GET). There is a wide range of forecasts, scenarios, and political plans emerging after the Paris Agreement in 2015. They demonstrate concerns about the slow progress on the matter; however, they still increase the goals for 2030–2050. The global capital formation is a key tool for changes while also representing the hard-budget investment constraints. This article examines practical features of recent trends in energy, poverty, and climate change mitigation, arguing that allocation and coordinated management of sufficient financial resources are vital for a simultaneous solution of GET. No group of countries can hope to solve each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) separately. The global economy has reached the point where it has an urgent need for cooperation.

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Tamm Review: Re-imagining forestry and wood business: pathways to rural development, poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation in the tropics

Forest Ecology and Management ◽

10.1016/j.foreco.2019.06.014 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 448 ◽

pp. 160-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

E.K. Sadanandan Nambiar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Rural Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

The Tropics ◽

Change Mitigation

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Climate Change Mitigation Policies Targeting Households and Addressing Energy Poverty in European Union

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13133389 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 3389 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Dalia Streimikiene ◽

Vidas Lekavičius ◽

Tomas Baležentis ◽

Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos ◽

Josef Abrhám

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Literature Review ◽

Emission Reduction ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Ghg Emission ◽

Energy Poverty ◽

Change Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Policies

Climate change mitigation measures linked to households’ energy consumption have huge greenhouse gases (GHG) emission reduction potential and positive impact on energy poverty reduction. However, measures such as renovation of residential buildings or installation of micro generation technologies based on renewable energy sources have not realized their full energy saving and GHG emission reduction potentials, due to the energy efficiency paradox and other barriers. These climate change mitigation policies targeting the households’ sector can deliver extra benefits such as energy poverty reduction and implementation of the energy justice principle; therefore, they require more attention of scholars and policy makers. The aim of this paper is to analyze the energy poverty and climate change mitigation issues in EU households based on a systematic literature review, and to provide future research paths and policy recommendations. Based on the systematic literature review, this paper develops an integrated framework for addressing energy poverty, just carbon free energy transition and climate change mitigation issues in the EU. Additionally, we argue that more targeted climate change policies and measures are necessary in the light of the shortcomings of current measures to reduce energy poverty and realize climate change mitigation potential linked to energy consumption in households.

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Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance

Transnational Environmental Law ◽

10.1017/s2047102511000124 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 119-135 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Neil Gunningham

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Energy Security ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

National Level ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Energy Poverty ◽

Energy Governance ◽

Mitigate Climate Change ◽

Energy Law ◽

Change Mitigation

AbstractThere is a compelling argument for developing a low carbon emissions trajectory to mitigate climate change and for doing so urgently. What is needed is a transformation of the energy sector and an ‘energy revolution’. Such a revolution can only be achieved through effective energy governance nationally, regionally, and globally. But frequently such governance is constrained by the tensions between energy security, climate change mitigation and energy poverty. At national level, there is a chasm between what is needed and what governments do ‘on the ground’, while regionally and globally, collective action challenges have often presented insurmountable obstacles. The article examines what forms of energy law, regulation and governance are most needed to overcome these challenges and whether answers are most likely to be found in hierarchy, markets, or networks.

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