A Geopolítica da Transição Energética
José Teixeira Fernandes
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1 ISCET – High Institute of Business and Tourism Sciences, Porto, Portugal
To cite this text: Fernandes, J. T. (2024). A Geopolítica da Transição Energética, Percursos & Ideias, 14, 05-17.
doi:10.56123/percursos.2024_n13_0002
Published . Language: Portuguese.
Abstract
In the coming decades should happen a shift from a human way of life based on intensive use of fossil energies to economies that will use renewable energies with neutral environmental impacts. Beyond the need to preserve the planet, this is a highly complex transformation with potentially huge repercussions on international political economy, i.e. wealth and power. Thus, the main objective of the research (which is an exploratory one) is to identify the links between the current energy transition to renewable energies and geopolitics. Possible consequences at the global level will be taken into account, including a brief look at the specific case of the European Union.
Keywords
Transicção energética, Segurança energética Geopolítica União Europeia
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