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- Consequences of the energy transition on poverty: evidence from the Southern African Development CommunityPublication . Lucamba, Querubim Capimolo Capamala; Marques, António Manuel Cardoso; Pereira, Diogo André dos SantosThe literature on the consequences of the transition on poverty in SouthernAfricanDevelopment Community (SADC) countries is scarce. This paper aims to fill this gapbystudying the consequences of the energy transition on energy poverty and traditional poverty. This research uses World Data Bank and World Health Organization databases to understandthe consequences of the energy transition on traditional and energy poverty. Anautoregressive distributed lag approach has been carried out to study 15 of the 16SADCcountries between 2000 and 2020. A battery of tests was carried out to assess the data'scharacteristics and the models' specifications. The tests pointed to the autoregressivedistributed lag models estimated with the Driscoll and Kraay estimator as the most suitableone. The results of this dissertation indicate that the consumption of clean energy for cookingreduces energy poverty in SADC countries. Accordingly, this reveals the need for SADCmember countries to have concrete public policies to provide their populations withbetteraccess to sustainable and modern energy sources. Thus, SADC member countries shouldconsider investments in renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic solar panels, contributing to increased access to electricity without further exacerbating traditional andenergy poverty.