How Can We Ensure the Race for Clean Energy Doesn't Leave the World's Poorest Citizens Behind?

Wind power is booming in Mexico.  With more than 3,200 megawatts in operation, the country is on par with Japan. By 2018 it expects to have 10,000 MW installed as part of the government’s Climate Action Plan.

Promising, right?

Scratch the surface of that boom, however, and you’ll find uncomfortable truths:  land rights conflicts and perceived inequities in access to the cheaper wind power that are fueling fierce resistance to the wind farms among indigenous communities in the southern state of Oaxaca, which provides more than 80 percent of the total wind-power output of the country.

Mexico’s experience is a cautionary tale of how the global transition to clean energy can leave the world’s poorest citizens behind — and why we need policies, new business models and financing schemes to remedy the imbalance.

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