Research Handbook on Energy, Law and Ethics

Foreword: In search of radical hope xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction to Research Handbook on Energy, Law and Ethics 1
Malik R. Dahlan, Rosa M. Lastra and Gustavo Rochette

PART I GOVERNING DYNAMICS OF ENERGY, LAW AND ETHICS
1 The decade of the energy transition 8
Howard Covington
2 Distributive justice and the global governance of energy 15
Arthur Feitosa and Jorge E. Viñuales
3 Moral drivers and lenses: Policy, economy, faith and climate change 28
Michael G. Pollitt
4 Energy between justice and ethics: A re-classification of theoretical lenses for a forward-looking epistemology 43
Malik R. Dahlan and Gustavo Rochette
5 Energy law and geopolitics: Oil and the struggle for the Middle East 59
Malik R. Dahlan
6 Climate change and ethics 96
James Dallas
7 The emergence of ethics in global climate litigation 110
Michael B. Gerrard

PART II ETHICS, FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
8 Introductory comments: Ethical finance? 124
Rosa M. Lastra and Michael Tsang
9 Finance and development: Net-zero aligned environmental, social and governance standards 140
Simona Marinescu
10 How international financial institutions help deliver the sustainable development goals 153
Marie-Anne Birken and Katherine Meighan
11 Sovereign wealth funds and ethical investment: The case of Norway 162
Rosa M. Lastra, Tom Fearnley and Lucia Satragno
12 The Equator Principles and standards applicable to the financing of energy sector projects 194
John L. Taylor and Theodora A. Christou
13 Knowledge sharing as ethics of development: The Asian Development Bank as a case study 207
Daniele Quaggiotto
14 Energy investment redefined: Will ethics become a criterion? 221
Norah Gallagher

PART III ENERGY, LAW AND ETHICS IN TRANSITION
15 Ethical drivers and challenges of energy efficiency law 243
Gabriela Prata Dias
16 The law of gravitas: The energy transition, renewable energy and ethics 256
Tedd Moya Mose
17 Ethical drivers for the renewable energy transition 266
Uma Outka
18 The ethical contribution of the EU’s ESG disclosure regime 280
Silke Goldberg and Jannis Bille
19 China’s energy in transition: Ethical considerations in the energy policies and legislation for the 21st century 293
Libin Zhang
20 Ethical issues associated with multi-customer microgrids 308
Richard T. Stuebi
21 Is there a human right to energy? 319
Estela B. Sacristán
22 Governing water ethically – A shifting waterscape 338
Erum Sattar
23 Ethics, energy technology transfer and international law 407
Victoria Sutton

PART IV ENERGY, LAW AND ETHICS POLICY IN PRACTICE
24 The Scotia Process Report 423
Gustavo Rochette and Krystel von Kumberg