Driving a just transition to renewable energy in India | World Sustainable Development Summit
How is renewable energy scaling in India and the world over? How will it contribute in the fight against climate change? This critical moment in the development sector is witnessing several changes with respect to policy priorities, financing models, and building industries including renewable energy, directed at developing resilience against future shocks.
However, the current scale of rapid expansion poses risks if potential negative impacts on the environment, social, and human rights are not taken into account, which could create challenges, ranging from land and labour rights, livelihood challenges to toxic waste, among others.
Thus, there is an urgent need to address the potential negative social and environmental impacts, in the renewable energy sector to ensure sustainable growth by abandoning poor practices that could potentially become entrenched in the way the sector operates, and driving fair and just social transitions towards a low-carbon future.
The Responsible Energy Initiative recently joined the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) by TERI on 16 February to discuss how the renewable energy sector is poised to:
- Set norms that enable deep positive transformation;
- Create flourishing and resilient communities and society; and,
- Instill principles of justice and equity across the value chain
Watch the full session here:
The Responsible Energy Initiative was launched in 2021 — a multi-year programme working to ensure renewable energy in Asia achieves its full potential and creates value in a way that is ecologically safe, rights-respecting and socially just. The initiative is being run by Forum for the Future, TERI, WRI India with expert support from Landesa, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and WWF in India.
