Distribution of energy consumption and the 2000 W/capita target

✍ Scribed by Daniel Spreng

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 357 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-4215
• DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2004.03.023

✦ Synopsis

This viewpoint discusses the intra-and international distribution of energy consumption and their implications for intergenerational equity. For global development to be sustainable, the inequality of energy consumption must have an upper limit. A graphic depiction of energy consumption distributions (intra-and international) shows that today's inequalities are large and it is argued that we may have already reached or perhaps even surpassed the sustainability limit of energy consumption inequality.