A Fast and Fair Energy Transition: How Community Legal Action and New Legislation are Shaping the Global Shift to Renewable Energy

IF 2.3 Q3 BUSINESS Business and Human Rights Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1017/bhj.2023.22
Elodie Aba
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Abstract Legal action by communities affected by climate change against high carbon corporate emitters is on the rise. At the same time, with the acceleration of a transition to a net-zero carbon economy, communities impacted by the implementation and operation of renewable energy projects are increasingly challenging shortcomings in the shift to renewable energy through ‘just transition litigation’. This strategy aims to ensure that respect for human rights is at the heart of the new energy paradigm, and that human rights abuses by the fossil fuel and mining sectors are not replicated. Progressive legislative reforms may also contribute to ensuring a fast and fair transition. This article examines how legal action and legislation may provide communities and rights-holders with pathways to climate justice – and sheds light on the need for a rights-centred approach by corporate actors and governments to the new energy transition.
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快速和公平的能源转型:社区法律行动和新立法如何塑造全球向可再生能源的转变
摘要受气候变化影响的社区对高碳企业排放者采取的法律行动正在增加。与此同时,随着向净零碳经济转型的加速,受可再生能源项目实施和运营影响的社区越来越挑战通过“公正过渡诉讼”向可再生能源转型的不足。这一战略旨在确保尊重人权是新能源模式的核心,并确保化石燃料和采矿部门侵犯人权的行为不会重演。渐进的立法改革也可能有助于确保快速和公平的过渡。本文探讨了法律行动和立法如何为社区和权利持有人提供实现气候正义的途径,并阐明了企业行为者和政府在新能源转型中采取以权利为中心的方法的必要性。
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期刊介绍: The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) provides an authoritative platform for scholarly debate on all issues concerning the intersection of business and human rights in an open, critical and interdisciplinary manner. It seeks to advance the academic discussion on business and human rights as well as promote concern for human rights in business practice. BHRJ strives for the broadest possible scope, authorship and readership. Its scope encompasses interface of any type of business enterprise with human rights, environmental rights, labour rights and the collective rights of vulnerable groups. The Editors welcome theoretical, empirical and policy / reform-oriented perspectives and encourage submissions from academics and practitioners in all global regions and all relevant disciplines. A dialogue beyond academia is fostered as peer-reviewed articles are published alongside shorter ‘Developments in the Field’ items that include policy, legal and regulatory developments, as well as case studies and insight pieces.
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