Published on July 20, 2020

Resist, Reclaim, Restructure: Unions and the Struggle for Energy Democracy

, kubasto (kubasto.com)

A trade union strategy for energy democracy can be built around three broad objectives, namely the need to resist the agenda of the fossil fuels corporations; the need to reclaim to the public sphere parts of the energy economy that have been privatized or marketized; and the need to restructure the global energy system in order to massively scale up renewable energy and other safe low–carbon options, implement energy conservation, and ensure job–creation and true sustainability.

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