Towards Energy Equity: A multi-stakeholder approach to a just renewable energy transition for Philip

According to Oxfam’s 2022 research paper “Towards a Just Energy Transition: Implications for Communities in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries,” a shift from the use of fossil fuels to renewable energy which maintains the top-down status quo of current energy systems has the danger of likewise perpetuating existing inequalities, including poverty, energy insecurity, health risks, resource exploitation, and land grabbing, among others. A single-minded focus on GHG emissions reduction also runs the risk of further worsening these sectoral and intersectional injustices.