From Sostenible to Sustentable: A Conceptual Reframing of Energy Transition Policy in Latin America — Evidence from Colombia
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- María Cecilia · Carlos Humberto
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The Sustainable Development Goals — particularly SDG 7 on affordable and clean energy — articulate ambitious commitments for the global energy transition, including the leave-no-one-behind principle of Agenda 2030. Their fulfilment in Latin America depends on the conceptual frameworks through which national policies operationalize them. This article argues that the dominant framework, desarrollo sostenible (the weak sustainability paradigm consolidated by the Brundtland Report), is inadequate to deliver the substantive ambitions of SDG 7 in territories marked by extractivist path dependence, fiscal dependence on hydrocarbons and persistent socio-environmental conflict. Drawing on the Latin American intellectual tradition that distinguishes sustentabilidad — a strong, ethically grounded horizon rooted in environmental rationality, the rights of nature and Buen Vivir — from sostenibilidad — a weak category compatible with substituting natural for economic capital — the paper develops three contributions for energy policy. First, it systematizes the analytical and normative differences between the two categories. Second, it builds the framework of Territorial Energy Sustainability (TES) as a propositional bridge between sustainability transitions theory, Latin American critical thought and energy justice, articulated around six conditions: territorial knowledge, equitable diversification, multi-level institutions, community openness, endogenous treatment of armed conflict, and fiscal sustainability of the transition. Third, it operationalizes the framework through evidence from six Colombian megaprojects and ten territorial validation workshops (n = 259), showing how the weak framework risks fulfilling SDG 7 only in form, while TES offers a stronger architecture for its substantive realization. Concrete policy implications for Latin American transitions are derived.
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María Cecilia; Carlos Humberto. From Sostenible to Sustentable: A Conceptual Reframing of Energy Transition Policy in Latin America — Evidence from Colombia. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7321653
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