Government – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:13:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 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 Will Dirty Nationalism Become the New Normal? https://energytransition.org/2022/10/will-dirty-nationalism-become-the-new-normal/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/will-dirty-nationalism-become-the-new-normal/#respond Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:00:48 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27433 When I arrived in Berlin in August 2018, it was impossible to guess how different the world we are living in today would look compared to the summer four years ago. I had just started to work as a research assistant at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs – Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in a project called the “Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transformation”.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/will-dirty-nationalism-become-the-new-normal/feed/ 0 Bonn becomes the first city in Germany, second in EU to endorse the Fossil Fuel Treaty https://energytransition.org/2021/12/bonn-becomes-the-first-city-in-germany-second-in-eu-to-endorse-the-fossil-fuel-treaty-2/ https://energytransition.org/2021/12/bonn-becomes-the-first-city-in-germany-second-in-eu-to-endorse-the-fossil-fuel-treaty-2/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:00:35 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25657 On the eve of the Paris Agreement’s anniversary, the United Nations FCCC city and former German Capital of Bonn calls for international cooperation to phase-out oil, fossil gas and coal. A bold new initiative, the global Fossil Fuels Non-Proliferation treaty is modeled after the UN’s treaty against the spread of nuclear weapons. Last year Climate Breakthrough Award winner...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/12/bonn-becomes-the-first-city-in-germany-second-in-eu-to-endorse-the-fossil-fuel-treaty-2/feed/ 0 Romanian Power Move: Bucharest takes billions in EU decarbonization funds https://energytransition.org/2021/12/romanian-power-move-bucharest-takes-billions-in-eu-funds-only-to-chart-its-own-decarbonization-path/ https://energytransition.org/2021/12/romanian-power-move-bucharest-takes-billions-in-eu-funds-only-to-chart-its-own-decarbonization-path/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:00:09 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25407 After years of resistance, this September Romania promised to exit coal by 2032 ahead of receiving a €29 billion chunk of NextGenerationEU redevelopment money, some 40% earmarked for green and sustainable projects. But then Bucharest’s coalition fell and a caretaker government has since announced plans for a fleet of new fossil gas and biomass plants to power the country past coal.

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