November 1, 2025
|        WORKING PAPER #
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Sean Sweeney

‍PART ONE
The Current Impasse of North-led Climate and Energy Policy
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Summarizes the current impasse of North-led climate and energy policy,and the crisis of neoliberal “green growth” policy. It draws attention to theglobal energy expansion, and the global failure to meet climate andsustainable development targets

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PART TWO
The Crucial Importance of Reclaiming Energy
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Points to the crucial importance of reclaiming energy to public ownershipand control, and what reclaimed energy companies armed with a publicgoods mandate can achieve.

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PART THREE
South Unity for a New (Energy) Order

Provides an assessment of how the South can assume leadership on climateand energy at the level of narrative, policy, and—perhaps—practical SouthSouth cooperation.

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