Download full text
(external source)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://doi.org/10.18288/1994-5124-2020-2-48-67
Exports for your reference manager
Energy efficiency, the overlooked climate emergency solution
[journal article]
Abstract Policies, especially in the European Union, encourage government and privately funded programs to engage in "energy efficiency first" strategies. Those policies lead to the moderation of energy demand and are long-term solutions that not only protect households from price fluctuations and energy pov... view more
Policies, especially in the European Union, encourage government and privately funded programs to engage in "energy efficiency first" strategies. Those policies lead to the moderation of energy demand and are long-term solutions that not only protect households from price fluctuations and energy poverty, but also allow people to reduce their environmental footprint and save money in the long term. Energy poverty usually occurs when a household is unable to secure a level and quality of domestic energy services - space cooling and heating, cooking, appliances, information technology etc. - sufficient for its social and material needs. In the Global North, energy poverty is generally attributed to internal and external factors such as low incomes, energy-inefficient homes and high energy prices, while in the Global South, the infrastructural lack of access to more technologically advanced energy carriers is the main culprit. Energy poverty in developing countries is gaining interest thanks to the seventh Sustainable Development Goal: Affordable and clean energy. Still, so far, in the European Union and in the rest of the world, little has been done to sew together the two concepts and include the most vulnerable part of the population in an approach that reconciles environmental and climate risks with social issues. In practice, energy poverty and efficiency agendas are rarely coordinated. Energy efficiency and a better pooling of the resources (known also as "sufficiency") could lead to higher resiliency to the social and climate crisis. Keywords: energy poverty, energy efficiency, Sustainable Development Goals.... view less
Keywords
energy consumption; energy production; efficiency; energy saving; sustainable development; energy policy; EU; justice
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
energy poverty; Sustainable Development Goals
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 48-67
Journal
Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 15 (2020) 2
ISSN
2411-2658
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0