Journal
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 52-60Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.027
Keywords
Ecologically unequal exchange; Consumption-based emissions; Embodied emissions; Inequality
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- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council [EP/K011790/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K011790/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K011790/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper situates concepts of energy consumption within the context of growing research on embodied emissions. Using the UK as a case study I unpack the global socio-economic and ecological inequalities inherent in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions on a territorial basis under the international climate change framework. In so doing, I problematise questions of distribution, allocation and responsibility with regards to the pressing need to reduce global GHG emissions and the consumption that generates them. I challenge the disproportionate emphasis that energy policy places on supply as opposed to demand, as well as its overriding focus on the national scale. Consequently I argue that any low carbon transition, in addition to a technological process, is also a geographical one that will involve the reconfiguration of current spatial patterns of economic and social activity (Bridge et al., 2013: 331), as well as relationships both within countries and regions and between them.
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