Energy democracy is needed’
A transfer of resources, capital and infrastructure from private hands to a democratically controlled public sector will need to occur in order to ensure that a truly sustainable energy system is developed in the decades ahead.
Energy democracy offers perhaps the only feasible route to a new energy system that can:
*Protect workers’ rights and generate decent and stable jobs
*Make Just Transition real
*Be responsive to the needs of communities
*Create an energy system based on environmentally sustainable methods of energy extraction, transport and use
*First control and then quickly and dramatically reduce emissions and harmful pollution
*Rapidly scale up renewable energy and other low–carbon energy options
*Aggressively promote energy conservation across all sectors
*Make serious progress towards ending energy poverty globally