Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe

The current energy transition focuses on decarbonisation through the use of renewable sources, coupled with improvements in efficiency by means technological innovations. However, there is also a clear call for realizing just transition. implementation smart technology-led transitions and low-carbon system innovations increasingly urged to become more people-centred taking poverty other justice related issues into account. Energy debates already transcend narrow foci income expenditure ratios have moved towards multidimensional approaches (Bouzarovski Petrova, 2015) [1]. In addition, capability approach (CA) has been used understand deprivation (Day et al., 2016) [2]. We further develop these better relevant within Positive Districts, especially looking at how opportunity spaces wellbeing are created. primary goal establish CA-informed framework analysing justice-relevant development based systematic literature search. Hereby we contribute discussion usage CA field debate frame innovations, such that they can