Climate Alliance – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:39:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 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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