Justice-Centered Energy Transitions and Sustainable Futures

Key Points

• The research aims to explore the relationship between fairness in resource allocation and successful energy transitions.
• Developed a justice-centered framework for analyzing energy transitions.
• Examined institutional designs that promote sustainability and fairness.
• Analyzed structural tensions between ecological goals and distributive justice.
• Identified that without fairness, energy transitions may lack legitimacy and compliance.
• Showed that inequitable allocation undermines the sustainability of energy reforms.
• Proposed that a justice-centered approach improves the credibility of decarbonization efforts.