The attached document is the Netherlands' revised climate agreement, as of June 2019. Within the document's 250 pages, it discusses 3 main things: a.) the goals of the climate agreement & governance structures, b.) environmental commitments towards five different sectors (the built environment, mobility, industry, agriculture, and electricity), and c.) agreements betwixt different sectors to best tackle the environmental problems that overlap between them. The goal of this is to achieve a 49% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030, with a goal of 100% renewable energy by 2050. During their "electricity" section, they state goals bluntly: "Between now and 2050, climate change will require a carbon-free electricity system. The transition is part of the shift toward a circular, carbon-free economy and society". The energy justice tenets of being renewable (greater social justice, equitable distribution, equal access, etc) are rife throughout the entire section - and equity/CRE implementation is accentuated through their position of community involvement; "the transition toward a carbon-free electricity system belongs to everyone...citizens can actively participate in new projects." While offering no clear distributive guidelines on how the citizens can participate within this system (they outline process participation through the "Green Deal on Participation of the Community in Sustainable Energy Projects"), they stress that community engagement is a crucial part to ensuring that the energy transition is done so successfully. They strive for at least 50% ownership of energy production to be done in the local community (either by citizens or businesses), and that a joint agreement between the existing energy infrastructure will need to come to fruition in order to ensure these goals are met. They also agree that their new scheme for renewable energy will explicitly include energy cooperatives, allowing participation locally to be even easier than the alternative. This scheme is expected to be finalized as of January 2021 - so at the time of writing, the future holds Netherlands' cooperative guidelines in jeopardy.
The Netherlands Federal Government, "Netherlands' Climate Agreement", contributed by Cam LaPorte, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 June 2020, accessed 2 May 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/netherlands-climate-agreement
Critical Commentary
The attached document is the Netherlands' revised climate agreement, as of June 2019. Within the document's 250 pages, it discusses 3 main things: a.) the goals of the climate agreement & governance structures, b.) environmental commitments towards five different sectors (the built environment, mobility, industry, agriculture, and electricity), and c.) agreements betwixt different sectors to best tackle the environmental problems that overlap between them. The goal of this is to achieve a 49% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030, with a goal of 100% renewable energy by 2050. During their "electricity" section, they state goals bluntly: "Between now and 2050, climate change will require a carbon-free electricity system. The transition is part of the shift toward a circular, carbon-free economy and society". The energy justice tenets of being renewable (greater social justice, equitable distribution, equal access, etc) are rife throughout the entire section - and equity/CRE implementation is accentuated through their position of community involvement; "the transition toward a carbon-free electricity system belongs to everyone...citizens can actively participate in new projects." While offering no clear distributive guidelines on how the citizens can participate within this system (they outline process participation through the "Green Deal on Participation of the Community in Sustainable Energy Projects"), they stress that community engagement is a crucial part to ensuring that the energy transition is done so successfully. They strive for at least 50% ownership of energy production to be done in the local community (either by citizens or businesses), and that a joint agreement between the existing energy infrastructure will need to come to fruition in order to ensure these goals are met. They also agree that their new scheme for renewable energy will explicitly include energy cooperatives, allowing participation locally to be even easier than the alternative. This scheme is expected to be finalized as of January 2021 - so at the time of writing, the future holds Netherlands' cooperative guidelines in jeopardy.