GET North (Green Energy Transitions in the North) | Alliance for a Sustainable Future

Introduction

GET-North seeks to answer the following central research questions: How do northern communities design energy systems that maximize (sustainable) benefits in the changing global and federal geopolitical, economic, and climate systems? What are the challenges that inhibit or facilitate these energy systems? How can community leaders and residents in various Arctic communities learn from each other as they face these challenges? GET-North employs comparative analysis to foster circumpolar, comparative studies of green transitions by studying the intersections of technological, governance, and environmental challenges through interdisciplinary themes.

To address the various issues, GET-North employs the just transition framework, by centering the needs of communities first and foremost. We employ a justice perspective, with the innate goal of providing research and development to curate the just transition at all scales of the energy transition. As such all our research is positing towards creating and developing a just energy system. At the core, our center prioritizes the just transition, and uses justice as the interconnecting thread tying our working groups and outcomes together.