posted on 2021-03-15, 21:22authored byAyodele Asekomeh, Obindah Gershon, Smith I. Azubuike
Dundee
City has been successful in installing green infrastructure for charging
electric vehicles (EVs). This intervention apparently matches the sustainable
development goals (SDGs) of affordable clean energy (7), sustainable cities and
communities (11) and climate action (13). Local authorities can align
interventions with SDGs according to needs. Thus, we undertake an eclectic
examination of the elements of the plan against the city’s peculiar
socio-economic environment, questioning whether the EV plan is equitable for
the city’s residents. Equitability may be either the complementarity and
benefits of the strategy from the obvious lenses of SDGs 7, 11 and 13 or the
alignment or otherwise of the EV strategy with the other SDGs. We note that the
EV strategy achieves some equitability but does not fully address all
inequalities. Although this approach could be adopted by smaller, similar or
bigger cities, we recommend that local priorities should be ranked to improve
alignment with SDGs.