Energy Security and Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 5317
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Energy security; Energy systems; Energy security and climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis have witnessed an increase in the number of calls for governments to direct recovery funds to green energy projects. Since energy is central to any economy, it is essential that the energy produced by these projects be available when it is needed, affordable to those who use it, and environmentally acceptable.
In other words, projects must ensure a secure, sustainable supply of energy.
How this will be achieved is another matter entirely. Jurisdictions will require policies designed to decouple sectoral activities from their energy sources through energy efficiency measures and to decarbonize their energy systems by restructuring the system to become less carbon intensive. Although decoupling and decarbonizing policies have led to emissions reductions in some jurisdictions, the solutions are typically jurisdiction specific and most are far from achieving the 2030 target of a 50% reduction in emissions.
This Special Issue welcomes papers that demonstrate the strong link between energy security and sustainable development. We plan to include a mix of papers that focus on both the theoretical and the empirical.
Given the importance of SDG 7 and its relationship with other UN sustainable development goals, we especially welcome papers written by researchers with experience implementing secure and sustainable energy systems in sub-Saharan or Asian countries.
The resulting issue will be of immense value to policymakers, researchers, and planners with an interest in maintaining and improving their community’s energy system, both securely and sustainably.
Prof. Larry Hughes
Dr. Moniek de Jong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Energy Security
- securely and sustainably
- green energy
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