Climate and Energy Law: Building Sustainable Global Governance for the 21st Century (Routledge Research in Energy Law and Regulation)

This book offers a bold and timely rethinking of how sustainable energy transitions can be achieved in an era of climate urgency and geopolitical uncertainty.Challenging the traditional top-down model of governance, the volume advances a compelling argument for a bottom-up transformation driven by citizens, prosumers, cities, and new market actors. The book locates this shift within a broader structural transformation of the energy sector, namely from supply-driven systems to demand-side governance centered on electrification, renewable energy, efficiency, smart grids, and digital innovation.By integrating legal, economic, technological, and policy perspectives, it demonstrates how decentralization, democratization, digitalization, deregulation, and decarbonization are reshaping global energy governance.Combining theoretical analysis with practical EU-based case studies, the book explores smart grids, collaborative economics, decentralized energy markets, and the evolving role of prosu