Research handbook on energy, law and ethics / edited by Malik Dahlan, Rosa Lastra, and Gustavo Rochette.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to research handbook on energy, law and ethics -- Part I. Governing dynamics of energy, law and ethics -- The decade of the energy transition -- Distributive justice and the global governance of energy -- Moral drivers and lenses: policy, economy, faith and climate change -- Energy between justice and ethics: a re-classification of theoretical lenses for a forward-looking epistemology -- Energy law and geopolitics: oil and the struggle for the Middle East -- Climate change and ethics -- The emergence of ethics in global climate litigation -- Part II. Ethics, finance and investment -- Introductory comments: ethical finance? -- Finance and development: net-zero aligned environmental, social and governance standards -- How international financial institutions help deliver the sustainable development goals -- Sovereign wealth funds and ethical investment: the case of Norway -- The equator principles and standards applicable to the financing of energy sector projects -- Knowledge sharing as ethics of development: the Asian development bank as a case study -- Energy investment redefined: will ethics become a criterion? -- Part III. Energy, law and ethics in transition -- Ethical drivers and challenges of energy efficiency law -- The law of gravitas: the energy transition, renewable energy and ethics -- Ethical drivers for the renewable energy transition -- The ethical contribution of the EU's ESG disclosure regime -- Chinas energy in transition: ethical considerations in the energy policies and legislation for the 21st century -- Ethical issues associated with multi-customer microgrids -- Is there a human right to energy? -- Governing water ethically: a shifting waterscape -- Ethics, energy technology transfer and international law -- Part IV. Energy, law and ethics policy in practice -- The Scotia Process Report -- Statement of urgency addressed to the United Nations secretary-general declaring an international diplomatic emergency on climate -- Climate20+: pathways to success at COP26: an unprecedented challenge, requiring an urgent G20 climate diplomatic agenda -- A proposal to achieve a Glasgow agreement: core commitments for states on climate action to reach net zero by 2050 -- Policy proposal 2: guiding propositions on binding climate commitments -- Policy proposal 3: community action -- Policy proposal 4 : engaging the young -- Policy proposal 5: framework climate laws -- Policy proposal 6: greening dispute resolution -- Policy proposal 7: communications -- Policy proposal 8: the model statute for proceedings challenging government failure to act on climate change -- Part V. Epilogue -- The Scotia communique: an intergenerational contract.