The political economy of the ‘just transition’
The political economy of the ‘just transition’
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“公正转型”的政治经济学
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2013
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Dustin Mulvaney
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P. Newell;Dustin Mulvaney
本文探讨了向低碳经济“公正过渡”的政治经济学。“公正过渡”的概念越来越多地出现在政策和政治讨论中，并呼吁有必要确保引导社会走向低碳未来的努力得到对公平和正义问题的关注的支持：关注目前无法获得可靠能源供应和生活在能源贫困中的人，以及关注生计受到化石燃料经济影响和依赖化石燃料经济的人。使事情进一步复杂化的是，这种过渡必须与对当代和后代的“气候正义”的追求相一致，因为他们面临着大气中温室气体排放浓度增加所造成的社会和生态破坏。在这里，我们试图确定和分析极其困难的政治权衡，这将阻碍集体努力制定和实现公正的过渡。我们探讨能源政治和实践的程序和分配方面，特别是因为它们涉及到公正的过渡：能源获取那些谁没有它;正义为那些谁的工作，并受到化石燃料经济的影响;并试图管理可能从追求能源和气候正义同时流的潜在矛盾。
This paper explores the political economy of the ‘just transition’ to a low carbon economy. The idea of a ‘just transition’ increasingly features in policy and political discourse and appeals to the need to ensure that efforts to steer society towards a lower carbon future are underpinned by attention to issues of equity and justice: to those currently without access to reliable energy supplies and living in energy poverty and to those whose livelihoods are affected by and dependent on a fossil fuel economy. To complicate things further this transition has to be made compatible with the pursuit of ‘climate justice’ to current and future generations exposed to the social and ecological disruptions produced by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Here we seek to identify and analyse the immensely difficult political trade-offs that will characterise collective attempts to enact and realise a just transition. We explore procedural and distributional aspects of energy politics and practice in particular as they relate to the just transition: energy access for those who do not have it; justice for those who work within and are affected by the fossil fuel economy; and attempts to manage the potential contradictions that might flow from pursuing energy and climate justice simultaneously.