An international study involving ICTA-UAB reveals that large energy corporations use corporate sustainability narratives to legitimize wind, solar and hydropower projects that, in practice, exclude communities from fair economic and financial returns and ignore the projects’ social and environmental impacts.
The dark side of the energy transition: Renewable megaprojects may sacrifice local communities’ rights
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