Book. Lights on Inequality. Is energy a form of inequality between, and within, Latin America and Europe?
Authors:
María María Ibáñez Martín. Federico Nastasi. Yormy Eliana Melo Poveda.
Between 2020 and 2022, an unprecedented global energy crisis exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities in access to and use of energy. This study aims to analyze how energy inequality, understood as a set of energy deprivations of varying severity, manifests itself in Latin America and Europe, comparing cases from Germany, Argentina, Colombia, and Spain, with a quantitative and econometric approach focused on households for the year 2022. Within this framework, different types of energy deprivation are considered as components of the energy inequality phenomenon (in increasing order of severity): vulnerability, poverty, and extreme poverty. The study adopts a perspective that understands energy as an essential social right for well-being, and not merely as an economic input.
Research Calls Collection.
ISBN 978-3-949142-41-3
EU-LAC Foundation. CLACSO.
Buenos Aires.
July 2025
