Spark is an independent online platform dedicated to boldly analysing and exploring the energy transition through a feminist and human rights lens.
Amid the multiple challenges posed by the climate emergency and the imperative to ensure high-quality, accessible, adequate, and sustainable energy services for all, this blog provides a space to rethink what constitutes transformative and effective ways to power our economies and societies.
Through written contributions that foster the exchange of ideas among activists, experts, frontline community members, and academics, we will collectively illuminate the systemic issues affecting current energy systems and spark discussions on energy alternatives that can enable a just, feminist, and rights-based transition to a sustainable future.
Feminist Insights for an Ecosocial and Anti-Patriarchal Energy Transition
Current energy systems, mostly implemented through mega-projects, are sustained by asymmetrical power relationships between governments, corporations, energy consumers, and the populations of the territories where they are established.
Beatriz Adriana Olivera Villa
Beatriz Adriana Olivera Villa has, during the last sixteen years, worked in different NGOs such as Greenpeace, Oxfam and Fundar. She has coordinated campaigns on climate change and energy transition in Mexico and Latin America. She has written several articles, blogs, and book chapters related to climate change, renewable energy, mining, and hydrocarbons and their impacts on territories and the environment.
She is currently the director of the NGO Engenera (Energy, Gender, and Environment) and she is a PhD student in rural development at the UAM-Xochimilco.
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