Davos – 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 If Billionaires Want to Rescue the Climate, They Have to Walk the Talk https://energytransition.org/2023/02/if-billionaires-want-to-rescue-the-climate-they-have-to-walk-the-talk/ https://energytransition.org/2023/02/if-billionaires-want-to-rescue-the-climate-they-have-to-walk-the-talk/#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:00:22 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27849 When the world’s wealthy and powerful descend on the Swiss ski resort of Davos every year to offer prescriptions to fix the world, the assumption from many on the outside is that these moguls are converging to fix it in a way that will protect their riches, or better yet expand them. Thus while there was XXL greenwashing afoot at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in January 16 to20...

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