TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental Justice and Just Transition in the EU’s Sustainability Policies in Third Countries
T2 - The Case of Colombia
AU - Weber, Gabriel
AU - Cabras, Ignazio
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the UACES Research Network ?The Role of Europe in Global Challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Development? for the organisation of a dedicated online workshop, and the co-editors for bringing this special issue to fruition. The Jean Monnet Network ?Governing the EU?s climate and energy transition in turbulent times? (GOVTRAN: www.govtran.eu), which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, deserves credit for additional support. Alliance Europa, which has funded the international research network on the ?Governance of Sustainability in Europe?, has also supported the ideas put forward in this article through a number of workshops across Europe.
Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the UACES Research Network ‘The Role of Europe in Global Challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Development’ for the organisation of a dedicated online workshop, and the co-editors for bringing this special issue to fruition. The Jean Monnet Network ‘Governing the EU’s climate and energy transition in turbulent times’ (GOVTRAN: www.govtran.eu ), which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, deserves credit for additional support. Alliance Europa, which has funded the international research network on the ‘Governance of Sustainability in Europe’, has also supported the ideas put forward in this article through a number of workshops across Europe.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Istituto Affari Internazionali.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - The European Union (EU) is globally recognised as a sustainability leader and has implemented various climate policies such as the European Green Deal. However, it is also one of the largest importers of fossil fuel resources from developing countries, as in the case of coal from Colombia. From a political ecology and environmental justice perspective, it is possible to argue that the EU has benefited for many years from cheap Colombian coal, while the local population has suffered from the related social and environmental impacts. Colombia and Europe are connected not only through ‘ecologically unequal exchanges’, but also through anti-coal activist networks, which highlights the challenges ahead for the EU and its (former) suppliers of fossil fuels in terms of sustainability transitions.
AB - The European Union (EU) is globally recognised as a sustainability leader and has implemented various climate policies such as the European Green Deal. However, it is also one of the largest importers of fossil fuel resources from developing countries, as in the case of coal from Colombia. From a political ecology and environmental justice perspective, it is possible to argue that the EU has benefited for many years from cheap Colombian coal, while the local population has suffered from the related social and environmental impacts. Colombia and Europe are connected not only through ‘ecologically unequal exchanges’, but also through anti-coal activist networks, which highlights the challenges ahead for the EU and its (former) suppliers of fossil fuels in terms of sustainability transitions.
KW - climate justice
KW - European Green Deal
KW - ecologically unequal exchange
KW - Latin America
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111621283&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03932729.2021.1946262
DO - 10.1080/03932729.2021.1946262
M3 - Article
SN - 0393-2729
VL - 56
SP - 119
EP - 137
JO - International Spectator
JF - International Spectator
IS - 3
ER -
