A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations

Patricia Romero-Lankao, Nicole Rosner, Christof Brandtner (), Christopher Rea, Adolfo Mejia-Montero, Francesca Pilo, Fedor Dokshin, Vanesa Castan-Broto, Sarah Burch and Scott Schnur
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Patricia Romero-Lankao: NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University of Toronto
Nicole Rosner: NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Christof Brandtner: EM - EMLyon Business School
Christopher Rea: OSU - The Ohio State University [Columbus]
Adolfo Mejia-Montero: The University of Edinburgh
Francesca Pilo: Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht]
Fedor Dokshin: University of Toronto
Vanesa Castan-Broto: University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
Sarah Burch: University of Waterloo [Waterloo]
Scott Schnur: Emory University [Atlanta, GA]

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Abstract: "The important role of justice in energy transition technologies has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. However, key questions remain about how inequities influence energy transition innovations (ETIs) from their design to their widespread use, which ETIs receive more funding, and who controls ETI research, prototyping and deployment. Here we propose a framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations (CJI) and examine how three tenets of justice (recognition, procedural and distributional justice) influence each level of ETI, including niche, regime and landscape levels. We examine wind energy in Mexico and multiple ETIs in Los Angeles as use cases to show how our CJI framework can help reveal the specific inequities undermining just energy transitions at crucial analytical levels of ETI in practice. Our CJI framework offers a path for promoters, practitioners and underserved communities to target the problems these groups face and create ETIs that better address their specific aspirations, needs and circumstances."

Keywords: practice diffusion; energy transition; environmental innovation technology; justice; environmental justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-21
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Published in Nature Energy, 2023, 8 (11), pp.1192-1198. ⟨10.1038/s41560-023-01351-3⟩

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DOI: 10.1038/s41560-023-01351-3

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