Donnerstag, 25. April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal

IPW Lecture - Pedro Alarcón (Uni Wien)

Sustainability and Development: Global South Debates on the Energy Transition

Konferenzraum IPW
Universitätsstraße 7/2. Stock, 1010 Wien

Lecture

IPW Lecture by Pedro Alarcón (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) / Visiting Professor, Research Network Latinamerica, University of Vienna

 

Sustainability and Development: Global South Debates on the Energy Transition

 

Moderation: Johannes Waldmüller, IPW, Forschungsverbund Lateinamerika

Diskutant*in: Anna Preiser, IPW, Forschungsverbund Lateinamerika

 

Abstract: The rapid increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after the lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic further evidences that the only option to curb a major rise in earth’s temperature is to transform the current energy system. Moreover, the war in Ukraine and the growing tensions in many fossil fuel-providing regions of the world push energy sovereignty issues to the top of the geopolitical agenda. The energy transition emerges from this complex settings, as one of the utmost pressing issues of our times as it epitomizes the drive towards global sustainability. In this context, the pursuit of development, a guiding principle of the Global South since the end of the Second World War emerges as a contested, and context-dependent discourse which is increasingly crashing into the notion of sustainability. In this ipw-lecture, I delve into the multifaceted interactions between the quest for global sustainability and the pursuit of national development in natural resource-rich countries of the Global South within the scenario set by the climate-driven energy transition, on the one hand. On the other hand, I argue that as the political economy of natural resources extraction seems to be reshaping worldwide, there is an emerging gap between the quest for global sustainability and the pursuit of national development.

Veranstalter

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

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Erstellt am Mittwoch, 06. März 2024, 09:44
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 06. März 2024, 10:28

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