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Addressing the challenges posed by energy poverty in Latin American countries

2024-09-12Journal article Open access
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dc.contributor.authorFilho, Walter Leal
dc.contributor.authorBegum, Halima
dc.contributor.authorAnholon, Rosley
dc.contributor.authorQuelhas, Osvaldo
dc.contributor.authorRampasso, Izabela
dc.contributor.authorSharifi, Ayyoob
dc.contributor.authorGuerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade
dc.contributor.authorGatto, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorLovett, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorVelazquez, Luis
dc.contributor.authorChávez Muñoz, Pastor David
dc.contributor.authorAlam, A. S. A. Ferdous
dc.contributor.authorBrandli, Luciana
dc.contributor.authorSalvia, Amanda Lange
dc.contributor.authorAmaro, Nelson
dc.contributor.authorEustachio, João Henrique Paulino Pires
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T10:14:08Z
dc.date.available2024-10-24T10:14:08Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-12
dc.description.abstractMany of the energy systems functioning across the developing world are poorly designed and largely inadequate to meet a country's commercial and domestic energy needs. This is especially so in Latin America, where poverty trends have been exacerbated by limited access to energy, which could be used towards supporting industrial and small-scale commercial activities. This has characterised the widespread trend of energy poverty. This phenomenon poses a major barrier towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing climate change, since lack of access to reliable energy generation systems hinders the development of economic activities and limits the comfort of living conditions. This paper reports on a study aimed at catering to a better understanding of the challenges related to energy poverty in Latin America and identifying some of the tools that may be deployed to address them. The methodological procedures used were bibliometric analysis and survey. The main findings of this research evidence that reducing energy poverty in Latin American countries is crucial to alleviating household costs since a considerable part of family income is used to pay the energy needs. Less use of coal, greater access to electricity-including those from renewable generation-as well as the use of technologies and programs subsidized by governments would significantly contribute to increasing the Latin American citizens' quality of life and achieving the SDGs.eng
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s43621-024-00426-9
dc.identifier.issn2662-9984
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/26138
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofDiscover Sustainability
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEnergy development
dc.subjectEnergy poverty
dc.subjectPosed challenges
dc.subjectBibliometric analysis
dc.subjectSurvey
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.titleAddressing the challenges posed by energy poverty in Latin American countrieseng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.startPage262
oaire.citation.titleDiscover Sustainability
oaire.citation.volume5
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameAlam
person.givenNameA. S. A. Ferdous
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-2413-3046
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