Legal Challenges at the End of the Fossil Fuel Era: Shaping a Just and Clean Energy Transition [Hardcover]

This edited collection proposes a wide range of approaches to address the legal issues pertaining to the end of the fossil fuel era. While the fossil fuel era is coming to an end both because of the inherent limits of its resources and because of the need to prevent to further pump out CO2 in an already saturated atmosphere, the legal dispositions to ensure an ordered and rational shift toward cleaner energy still need to be developed. Not only in relation to CO2 emissions themselves but also in relation to the manifold issues related to environmental justice in an era of global climate change and global warming. This book is unique in that it provides a theoretical framework but also works to address cutting edge issues through a series of case studies.  

Preface.- Introduction: Challenges at the end of the fossil fuel era: An overview.- Part 1: Environmental and Social Energy Justice.-  Chapter 1: Transitioning all together? Participation rights, foreign investment, and the pursuit of a just energy future.- Chapter 2: The right to a decent standard of living: A practical tool to guarantee basic needs at the end of the fossil fuel era.- Chapter 3: Energy communities: Why (sometimes) the commons need the state.- Chapter 4: Linking energy poverty, environmental justice and forced displacement: Controversies and ways forward.- Chapter 5: Theorising a human rights-based approach to energy transition and its justiciability in international and domestic jurisprudence,- Chapter 6: Just transition litigation in Latin America: Striking a balance between economic development and environmental and social energy justice.- Part 2: Legal and Political Challenges of a Clean and Just Energy Transition.-  Chapter 7: The challenge of phasing out fossil fuels: a climate-chal"