
November 1, 2025
| WORKING PAPER #
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Sean Sweeney
PART ONE
The Current Impasse of North-led Climate and Energy Policy
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
PART TWO
The Crucial Importance of Reclaiming Energy
Points to the crucial importance of reclaiming energy to public ownershipand control, and what reclaimed energy companies armed with a publicgoods mandate can achieve.
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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