Christian Oltra, Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research (CIEMAT) and Universitat de Barcelona.;
Climate change is a very complex problem, and its possible solutions may not be a matter of true or false, but of better or worse. We review two books that talk about how this debate is ceasing to be a technical and rational question to become a question of values and lifestyles.
John H. Knox, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of the human rights and the environment, Wake Forest University (United States);
John Knox, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, explains how climate change is endangering the right to life, health, water, food, housing, development and self-determination.
Sergio Tirado Herrero, RMIT University Europe / Asociación de Ciencias Ambientales (Environmental Sciences Association – ACA); José Luis López Fernández, Asociación de Ciencias Ambientales (Environmental Sciences Association – ACA); Luis Jiménez Meneses, Asociación de Ciencias Ambientales (Environmental Sciences Association – ACA);
Energy poverty is a growing phenomenon since the beginning of the crisis in 2008 and the highest incidence is found in certain socioeconomic groups. What are the consequences of this reality? What structural measures would be needed to tackle this problem?