Energy sustainable technologies in the brazilian semiariid: physical potentials and socio-environmental challenges for a fair and responsible energy transition

Abstract

Climate change constitutes major concerns for science and governance in general and its importance is revealed as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the 2030 Agenda, of the United Nations (ONU). The seventh goal deals with the energy transition using fuels from renewable sources. The Northeast of Brazil appears as a great storehouse of abundant sun and winds. However, the impacts of the implementation of wind and solar energy parks constitute a denial of other objectives of the same SDG 2030. An arena of disputes arises involving the State, international capital, impacted populations and the third sector. This text will show the ethnogenesis, post-2020 of the Movement of People Affected By Renewables (MAR) which, in practice, questions the transition model that defines public policies and points to the need to think about Corporate Social Responsibility for companies and a more pro- -active and transparent by public institutions.

Keywords: renewable energy; socio-environmental impacts; transition.