Literature

• ENGAGER, Call to Action: Energy poverty willl increase with the COVID-19 crisis. Time for a right to energy!’ (May 2020)  
• Hesselman, Varo, Laakso, ‘The Right to Energy in the EU’ (ENGAGER Policy Brief No. 2, June 2019) 
• Hesselman and Tirado (eds), ‘New Narratives and Actors for Citizen-Led Dialogues’ (ENGAGER Policy Brief No. 4, September 2020)
• Gordon Walker, ‘The Right to Energy: Meaning, Specification and the Politics of Definition’ (2015)
• Lars Löfquist, Is there a universal human right to electricity? (2019)

Podcasts

ENGAGER Podcast 1: Energy Access as a Basic Human Right

ENGAGER Podcast 2: The Right to Energy – A Policy Framework 

What is energy and why is it important?
Academic answers from different decades:

• 1917: Harold Chapman Brown: Matter and Energy. in: The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, p. 57-65.
• 1962: Philip Sporn: Energy. Its Production, Conversion and Use in the Service of Man. Pergamon.
• 1988: Eugene A. Rosa Gary E. Machlis Kenneth M. Keating: Energy and Society. In: Annual Review of Sociology 1988 14:1, 149-172.
• 2017: Manuel DeLanda: The Philosophy of Energy. Project: The Philosophy of Energy.

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Examples of defining minimum and affordable energy:

• Report: UN SDG 7 Global Tracking Framework:
  Annex I (2015) 
• INSIGHT_E publications
• Walker, Simcock and Day (2016) Necessary energy uses and a minimum standard of living in the United Kingdom: Energy justice or escalating expectations? 
• Energy for Growth Hub Report: Raising Global Energy Ambitions: The 1,000 kWh Modern Energy Minimum

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Some more relevant links:

• European Commission: The European Pillar of Social Rights in 20 principles
• Mercy Law Resource Centre: Second Right to Housing Report: The Right to Housing in Comparative Perspective (PDF)
• European Parliament: MEPs: Access to adequate housing should be a fundamental European right

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Some more relevant links:

• Pattem (2020)/The Guardian: Spanish shantytown residents face third month without power as snow forecast
• Madrid No Frills: Welcome to the Cañada Real: Madrid’s forgotten barrio

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What has been done during the pandemic already?

• COVID-19 Energy Map
• ENGAGER, Call to Action: Energy poverty willl increase with the COVID-19 crisis. Time for a right to energy!’ (May 2020)
• https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk
• https://awblog.at/der-energie-und-klimahilfsfonds/
• Nagaj and Korpysa (2020) Impact of COVID-19 on the Level of Energy Poverty in Poland (PDF)

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