Objective: To analyze how scientific literature approaches renewable energy as adaptation strategies to climate change. Methodology: A methodology with a qualitative approach was employed, using a systematic literature review as a methodological procedure and content analysis as a technique for processing the data collected. Originality/Relevance: The systematic literature review study on the topic in question is crucial, as it made it possible to identify themes that require evidence in the scientific literature, helping, based on what has already been investigated and written on the topic, to guide future research. Results: The results discussed indicate that, of the 42 papers analyzed, only 12 bring, in a more central way, renewable energies as strategic to face climate change. However, it is possible to conclude that this association still occurs, above all, from the perspective of mitigating Greenhouse Gas emissions, without understanding such energy sources as promoters of climate adaptation, promoting, among other results, the reduction of vulnerabilities and socio-environmental risks. Social contributions to management: The paper makes it possible to see, for example, how climate adaptation capacities have been built, incorporating renewable energies as mitigation and, in particular, adaptation strategies.
Teixeira et al. (Wed,) studied this question.