Colombia – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Thu, 25 May 2023 15:18:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Finito: Colombia halts new gas, oil and coal exploitation https://energytransition.org/2023/05/finito-colombia-halts-new-gas-oil-and-coal-exploitation/ https://energytransition.org/2023/05/finito-colombia-halts-new-gas-oil-and-coal-exploitation/#respond Thu, 25 May 2023 15:16:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=28197 President Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first-ever progressive leader, wants to help slow global climate change, protect regional biodiversity and bolster Indigenous people’s rights by decoupling the nation’s economy from fossil fuels, starting with a ban on new oil and coal exploration permits. The contentious policy change for the long fossil fuel dependent nation comes on the back of a bonanza year...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2023/05/finito-colombia-halts-new-gas-oil-and-coal-exploitation/feed/ 0 Colombia part 2 | The Global Energy Transition Podcast – Season 2, Episode 2 https://energytransition.org/2022/12/colombia-part-2-the-global-energy-transition-podcast-season-2-episode-2/ https://energytransition.org/2022/12/colombia-part-2-the-global-energy-transition-podcast-season-2-episode-2/#respond Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:41:04 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27725 Representing a district near several of Germany’s largest coal mines and lignite-burning power plants, Kathrin Henneberger entered the Bundestag, Germany’s Federal Parliament, on a mandate from Green voters to accelerate the clean energy transition both at home and abroad. Long involved in the campaign to curtail global coal and fossil fuel production as well as human rights, during the summer of...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/12/colombia-part-2-the-global-energy-transition-podcast-season-2-episode-2/feed/ 0 Colombian Conundrum: Resetting development relationships with Germany and the world https://energytransition.org/2022/11/colombian-conundrum-resetting-development-relationships-with-germany-and-the-world/ https://energytransition.org/2022/11/colombian-conundrum-resetting-development-relationships-with-germany-and-the-world/#respond Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:00:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27559 Led by reformer Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s new leftist government, the first in its long history, aims to both reduce its dependence on fossil fuel exports and achieve 100% clean electricity by 2032 while creating peace and creating economic prosperity. But to ensure these aims can justly be reached, Petro’s administration will need assistance, particularly from Germany. Its fifth largest trading...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/11/colombian-conundrum-resetting-development-relationships-with-germany-and-the-world/feed/ 0 Colombia’s first ever left-green government shakes up nation’s energy sector https://energytransition.org/2022/11/colombias-first-ever-left-green-government-shakes-up-nations-energy-sector/ https://energytransition.org/2022/11/colombias-first-ever-left-green-government-shakes-up-nations-energy-sector/#respond Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:00:29 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27467 It was unthinkable that a leftist government could ever take office in Colombia – and then this summer it happened. Historically power has been held by the nation’s upper classes who used state violence to terrorize unions, minorities, indigenous groups and social reformers. But running on a platform promising a government dedicated towards waging civil peace and ensuring social and environmental...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/11/colombias-first-ever-left-green-government-shakes-up-nations-energy-sector/feed/ 0 Colombian coal connections: German MEP Kathrin Henneberger works to phase it out on both sides of the Atlantic https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-coal-connections-german-mep-kathrin-henneberger-works-to-phase-it-out-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-coal-connections-german-mep-kathrin-henneberger-works-to-phase-it-out-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic/#respond Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:00:56 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27511 After a year serving in Germany’s Bundestag, the climate-champion and Green MEP Kathrin Henneberger now finds herself struggling to defend the progress made by her predecessors. In response to Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz personally calling Colombia’s then president, Iván Duque to increase coal exports, despite well-known human rights violations associated with mining there...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-coal-connections-german-mep-kathrin-henneberger-works-to-phase-it-out-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic/feed/ 0 Russia’s war does not require returning to energy colonialism in Colombia https://energytransition.org/2022/10/russias-war-does-not-require-returning-to-energy-colonialism-in-colombia/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/russias-war-does-not-require-returning-to-energy-colonialism-in-colombia/#respond Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:00:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27491 Elected to Germany’s Bundestag a year ago, Kathrin Henneberger entered Parliament on a clear mandate from Green Party voters to accelerate coal’s domestic phase out and speed up the energy transition. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the narrative. When word leaked that, despite well-known human rights violations in Colombia, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz had personally called then...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/russias-war-does-not-require-returning-to-energy-colonialism-in-colombia/feed/ 0 Colombian Conundrum: Cleaner energy or green extractivism poses another challenge for nation’s 1st Left-Green government https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-cleaner-energy-or-green-extractivism-poses-another-challenge-for-nations-1st-left-green-government/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-cleaner-energy-or-green-extractivism-poses-another-challenge-for-nations-1st-left-green-government/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:00:24 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27417 Battered by decades of bloody civil war, energy and resource development remain major flash points. But record fossil fuel market prices present a difficult choice for Colombia’s new environmental and social-justice oriented president, Gustavo Petro. Increasing production risks the nation’s fragile peace. But not taking advantage of the revenue, they risk economic collapse.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-cleaner-energy-or-green-extractivism-poses-another-challenge-for-nations-1st-left-green-government/feed/ 0 Colombia part 1 | The Global Energy Transition Podcast – Season 2, Episode 1 https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombia-part-1-the-global-energy-transition-podcast-season-2-episode-1/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombia-part-1-the-global-energy-transition-podcast-season-2-episode-1/#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:19:31 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27409 Aftershocks from Russia’s war against Ukraine continue rippling around the world, including to the deserts and jungles of Colombia. Producing increasing volumes of oil and fossil gas, this Andean country is also one of the world’s largest coal exporters. Long rocked by violence, civil war as well as government and industry-linked terrorism, prior to Russia’s invasion European buyers had been...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombia-part-1-the-global-energy-transition-podcast-season-2-episode-1/feed/ 0 Gender-Responsive Climate Policy as a chance for a Colombian coal phase-out? https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23661/ https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23661/#respond Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:00:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23661 The recent publication “Gender-Responsive Climate Policy – a Case Study of the Colombian Coal Sector” showed that climate policies must take gender into account not only to limit the destructiveness of the current climate crisis but also to achieve a just transformation of the Colombian coal sector. Kathrin Meyer explains the advantages of this approach and its international relevance. (CC BY 2.0...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23661/feed/ 0 Biking in Bogota https://energytransition.org/2020/05/bogota/ https://energytransition.org/2020/05/bogota/#respond Mon, 04 May 2020 13:00:59 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22191 For climate activists, the coronavirus pandemic has held some positive news with regards to its short term effects. As a result of the economic standstill in large parts of the world, global carbon emissions decreased by 20 percent by the end of March compared to the previous year. But as pressure is building up to get the economies going again, they must also fear that once this global health...

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