Need for fair and equitable solutions to climate change and the energy crisis

Abstract

In the last 50 years, the rules of operation of the prevailing world economic order have moved significantly away from the aspirations of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) launched in 1974 as a proposal from the developing countries. Furthermore, the environmental crisis, that affects the planet and compromises the future of humanity, has been accentuated to unprecedented levels; and the energy crisis that impacts especially on the most impoverished economies has been reinforced. The ecological and energy crisis must be analyzed, therefore, in their close connection with the problems, gaps and imbalances of today's world in terms of socioeconomic development. Both challenges have a very negative impact on the majority of the world's population, who resides in developing countries and moves in a vicious circle between underdevelopment, poverty and environmental deterioration. Proposals for solutions regarding the environment and development to get out of the aforementioned vicious circle and respond to the planetary ecological and energy crisis must take into account the priorities and interests of the South.