Thesis
Renewable energy injustices : promoting an African communitarian approach to global energy justice through international law
- Creator
- Rights statement
- Awarding institution
- University of Strathclyde
- Date of award
- 2024
- Thesis identifier
- T16828
- Person Identifier (Local)
- 201869862
- Qualification Level
- Qualification Name
- Department, School or Faculty
- Abstract
- The energy transition has raised the profile of renewable energy as an energy source with several benefits. It has equally spotlighted a range of injustices generated by renewable energy development and use. Energy justice has emerged as a framework for conceptualising and addressing these injustices at the domestic and international levels. Although research on energy justice has increased in recent years, it has mainly relied on Western philosophical ideas that mirror the status quo of energy production and utilisation. This development has robbed energy justice of a more suitable approach for identifying and addressing renewable energy injustices. In this thesis, I propose a new conception of global energy justice based on an interpretation of African communitarianism that values relationality as expressed through identity and solidarity. To assess this proposition, I adopt the unfair distribution of renewable energy benefits in the international community as a test case. I propose the redistribution of financial, technological, and other capacity-based resources from developed and high-income countries to developing and low-income countries for renewable energy development. To operationalise this approach to global energy justice, I strategically re-interpret the Common but Differentiated Responsibilities principle and the duty to cooperate in line with African communitarianism to support resource redistribution. Institutions within international climate law, like the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the various human rights treaty- and non-treaty bodies within international human rights law, could help implement this re-interpretation through a variety of legal techniques. As a way of addressing emergent interpretative and implementation gaps, I also propose additional tools. Ultimately, my research contributes to existing energy justice scholarship by highlighting the significant contribution of non-Western philosophies in addressing renewable energy injustices and re-positioning international law as a tool for operationalising this approach to energy justice.
- Advisor / supervisor
- Morgera, Elisa
- McHarg, Aileen
- Resource Type
- Note
- This thesis was previously held under moratorium from 13th February 2024 until 13th February 2026.
- DOI
- Date Created
- 2023
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