Politics of energy transition

Samuel Sunday Idowu

Chapter 92 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Energy Economics, 2025, pp 361-364 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Energy has become indispensable to both human survival and society's development. While energy remains important in all aspects, its sources are fast becoming more vital than the volume being supplied due to the heightened awareness of damage the process and usage cause to the climatic condition. To achieve the goal of arresting and reversing energy's harmful impact, a transnational platform is considered viable to address the menace of the threat to life and environmental degradation—leveraging the United Nations (UN) as the most influential international organization. However, the effect of the UN platform seems minimal in this regard. Employing structural functionalism theory to underpin this study, three indices of global politics—states’ commitment to global climate action agreements, technology management, and energy transition funding—were identified as undermining the global structure's survival for the pursuit of national interests by states. The study recommends jettisoning the realist orientation for comradeship relations.

Keywords: Politics; Energy Transition; United Nations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035310364
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