Legal Challenges at the End of the Fossil Fuel Era

Daniel Iglesias Márquez is Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rovira and Virgili University, Spain. He is also Lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain, and the University of Monterrey (UDEM), Mexico. He is also researcher of the Human Rights and Business Institute at the UDEM and Associate Researcher at Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT-URV). Beatriz Felipe Pérez is a Research Associate at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT) at the Rovira and Virgili University, Spain. Clara Esteve-Jordà is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and an associate researcher at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT), Spain  

Preface.- Introduction: Challenges at the end of the fossil fuel era: An overview.- Part 1: Environmental and Social Energy Justice.-  Chapter 1: Transitioning all together? Participation rights, foreign investment, and the pursuit of a just energy future.- Chapter 2: The right to a decent standard of living: A practical tool to guarantee basic needs at the end of the fossil fuel era.- Chapter 3: Energy communities: Why (sometimes) the commons need the state.- Chapter 4: Linking energy poverty, environmental justice and forced displacement: Controversies and ways forward.- Chapter 5: Theorising a human rights-based approach to energy transition and its justiciability in international and domestic jurisprudence,- Chapter 6: Just transition litigation in Latin America: Striking a balance between economic development and environmental and social energy justice.- Part 2: Legal and Political Challenges of a Clean and Just Energy Transition.-  Chapter 7: The challenge of 'phasing out' fossil fuels: a climate-changing transition.- Chapter 8: The role of hydrogen for a sustainable energy transition in the European Union: Between a fossil-based and a renewable path.- Chapter 9: The legal protection of the territory of Catalonia against specific renewable energy projects.- Chapter 10: Critical mineral supply in the European energy transition: Towards just institutional approaches.- Chapter 11: 'Sustainable Energy' under reformed international investment agreements.- Chapter 12: Energy Charter Treaty and investor-State dispute settlement: Legal challenges in energy transition.