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Baker, Shalanda H. --- "Emerging challenges in the global energy transition: a view from the frontlines" [2018] ELECD 1098; in Salter, Raya; Gonzalez, G. Carmen; Kronk Warner, A. Elizabeth (eds), "Energy Justice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 232

Book Title: Energy Justice

Editor(s): Salter, Raya; Gonzalez, G. Carmen; Kronk Warner, A. Elizabeth

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786431752

Section: Chapter 9

Section Title: Emerging challenges in the global energy transition: a view from the frontlines

Author(s): Baker, Shalanda H.

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

9. Shalanda Baker, Emerging challenges in the global energy transition: a view from the frontlines. This chapter considers, through an energy democracy framework, how Indigenous communities in Mexico are being impacted by renewable energy investments by private capital from the Global North sparked, in large part, by Mexico’s market-oriented energy transition. The renewable energy transition unfolding in Mexico provides a preview of what private-led renewable energy development might look like across the Global South, as well as the inherent tensions of doing business in a country that is still home to millions of Indigenous peoples. Indeed, countries throughout the Global South, such as Brazil, are closely watching Mexico’s market-driven reforms to determine whether they can be replicated. This chapter provides a window into emerging tensions resulting from this development path and explores how these tensions might be resolved utilizing an energy democracy framework.