Speed and justice in a renewable energy transition

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dc.contributor.authorSteel, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorVasquez-Fernandez, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorCrookall, Brynmor
dc.contributor.authorCripps, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorDesRoches, C. Tyler
dc.contributor.authorMintz-Woo, Kian
dc.contributor.funderSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T14:50:05Z
dc.date.available2026-07-01T14:50:05Z
dc.date.issued2026-01-30
dc.description.abstractA just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy has been associated with a variety of duties, including climate change mitigation and promoting procedural, distributive, and recognitional justice. Several authors have discussed transitional justice tensions between the need for rapid greenhouse gas emissions reductions and other aspects of a just transition, such as fair inclusion of stakeholders. We make the case that such trade-offs are often uncertain, and that this has important moral implications tied to inductive risks. Inductive risks arise when decision-making requires accepting or rejecting an uncertain statement, where the moral harms of errors may be asymmetrical. This line of reasoning suggests that very strong evidence should be required to accept that imposing injustices on marginalized populations is necessary for rapid emissions reductions.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada|AWD-021159 SSHRC 2021
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dc.identifier.authororcidSteel, Daniel
dc.identifier.authororcidVasquez-Fernandez, Andrea
dc.identifier.authororcidCrookall, Brynmor
dc.identifier.authororcidCripps, Rachel
dc.identifier.authororcidDesRoches, C. Tyler
dc.identifier.authororcidMintz-Woo, Kian§0000-0002-9216-9561
dc.identifier.citationSteel, D, Vasquez-Fernandez, A, Crookall, B, Cripps, R, DesRoches, C T & Mintz-Woo, K 2026, 'Speed and justice in a renewable energy transition', Ethics, Policy and Environment, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2026.2614931
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/21550085.2026.2614931
dc.identifier.endpage19
dc.identifier.issn2155-0085
dc.identifier.journaltitleEthics, Policy and Environment
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18988
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
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dc.rights© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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dc.rights.licensenameAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectClimate ethics
dc.subjectClimate justice
dc.subjectInductive risk
dc.subjectJust transition
dc.subjectTransitional justice
dc.subject[SocietyPoliticsEthics]
dc.titleSpeed and justice in a renewable energy transitionen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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