Towards a Just Energy Transition?

I recently published a research article in an edited collection called Sustainable Energy Development: Technology and Investment. The collection offers analyses of how global society is trying to shift towards a more environmentally minded kind of capitalism by going carbon free in energy generation. To shift gears at such a fast pace, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasized in 2023 that at least $2.4 trillion US will need to be invested globally on average in green technologies and clean energy annually to correct for already occurring harm and to prevent further climate change damage. This book’s nine chapters tell how ramping up spending, investing, and programming is going. In the chapter titled, “Moving Michigan Towards Just Building, Housing, Energy Production, Distribution, and Storage,” I tell the story of how multiple state, industry, non-profit, and community activist stakeholders created the statewide climate change investment policy now known as MI Healthy Climate Plan over the course of 6 months of open meetings. This level of investment will certainly benefit some, will it also ameliorate longstanding climate-based classed, raced, gendered, and colonial injustices?

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