Description
Climate change pressurise the global community to phase-out of non-environmental-friendly sources of energy by transiting to clean and green sources. This transition had and continue to have considerable effects, positive and negative on human-rights. While scholars have researched on the impacts of the energy transition on human rights in general and on gender rights, basically none of them have studied the impacts of the energy transition on children rights. This research thus intends to fill this gap based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children. It questions the consequences of the shift from fossil-fuel based energy systems to renewable energy on children rights from the energy justice perspective. Using desk-based research, the paper demonstrates how the energy justice tenets (recognition, distributive, restorative, and procedural justice) can address the justice and injustice of the energy transition on children and recommend that more interdisciplinary research must be done to provide evidence and guide policies.
Keywords: energy justice, children rights, energy transition
