Confronting Local and Global Tipping Narratives:Green Energy Development in the Arctic and Why Greenland Is Not for Sale
This research addresses a confrontation of narratives usually overlooked in global-local discourses about green energy futures by focusing on the case of Greenland. On the one hand, the call for keeping the vast amounts of Greenland’s fossil fuel deposits in the ground, as one of the most efficient...
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ftalborgunivpubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/a7e239ee-b7da-48c7-87db-d5cd6eda7229 2024-09-15T17:51:02+00:00 Confronting Local and Global Tipping Narratives:Green Energy Development in the Arctic and Why Greenland Is Not for Sale Hansen, Anne Merrild Tàbara, J. David 2024-03-23 application/pdf https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/a7e239ee-b7da-48c7-87db-d5cd6eda7229 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50762-5_14 https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/709790323/978-3-031-50762-5_14.pdf http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189556891&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng Springer https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/a7e239ee-b7da-48c7-87db-d5cd6eda7229 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Hansen , A M & Tàbara , J D 2024 , Confronting Local and Global Tipping Narratives : Green Energy Development in the Arctic and Why Greenland Is Not for Sale . in Springer Climate . Springer , Springer Climate , no. 1 , vol. Part F2470 , pp. 287-300 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50762-5_14 Earth tipping points Greenland Justice Positive tipping points bookPart 2024 ftalborgunivpubl https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50762-5_14 2024-09-05T14:36:16Z This research addresses a confrontation of narratives usually overlooked in global-local discourses about green energy futures by focusing on the case of Greenland. On the one hand, the call for keeping the vast amounts of Greenland’s fossil fuel deposits in the ground, as one of the most efficient and fastest strategies to limit global GHG emissions and avoid a climate catastrophe -hence preventing a negative global climate tipping point. And on the other, the need to exploit and provide alternative mineral resources for the global green energy transformation – hence enabling a global positive tipping point towards a sustainable development trajectory. For that, we trace the historical local conditions and events that eventually led towards green development trajectory pathways. These include indigenous groups’ opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic waters and more recently, the consideration of alternative resource governance mechanisms in support of a low-carbon transformation. We argue that overcoming such confrontation requires reconciling both Natural Resource Justice with Earth System Justice principles that consider the rights, needs, worldviews, and institutional traditions of local communities. Among them, the impossibility of privately owning land across generations in Greenland stems as a possible example of disruptive tipping intervention on how Western societies could learn to relate to biophysical systems in more sustainable ways to cope with accelerated global environmental change. Book Part Arctic Greenland Aalborg University's Research Portal 287 300 |
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This research addresses a confrontation of narratives usually overlooked in global-local discourses about green energy futures by focusing on the case of Greenland. On the one hand, the call for keeping the vast amounts of Greenland’s fossil fuel deposits in the ground, as one of the most efficient and fastest strategies to limit global GHG emissions and avoid a climate catastrophe -hence preventing a negative global climate tipping point. And on the other, the need to exploit and provide alternative mineral resources for the global green energy transformation – hence enabling a global positive tipping point towards a sustainable development trajectory. For that, we trace the historical local conditions and events that eventually led towards green development trajectory pathways. These include indigenous groups’ opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic waters and more recently, the consideration of alternative resource governance mechanisms in support of a low-carbon transformation. We argue that overcoming such confrontation requires reconciling both Natural Resource Justice with Earth System Justice principles that consider the rights, needs, worldviews, and institutional traditions of local communities. Among them, the impossibility of privately owning land across generations in Greenland stems as a possible example of disruptive tipping intervention on how Western societies could learn to relate to biophysical systems in more sustainable ways to cope with accelerated global environmental change. |
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Confronting Local and Global Tipping Narratives:Green Energy Development in the Arctic and Why Greenland Is Not for Sale |
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Confronting Local and Global Tipping Narratives:Green Energy Development in the Arctic and Why Greenland Is Not for Sale |
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Confronting Local and Global Tipping Narratives:Green Energy Development in the Arctic and Why Greenland Is Not for Sale |
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