Indigenous – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:25:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 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 Colombian Conundrum: Banning Russian fossil fuels ups global demand for blood coal https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-banning-russian-fossil-fuels-ups-global-demand-for-blood-coal/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-banning-russian-fossil-fuels-ups-global-demand-for-blood-coal/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:00:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27323 Responding to sanctions leveled on Russia following its February invasion of Ukraine, Moscow throttled deliveries of its fossil gas to the European Union. Desperate to keep the lights on, regulators and power producers returned to coal. But with Russia mining almost 70% of EU imports, burners needed other suppliers. Despite widely acknowledged human rights abuses there, in early April...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-banning-russian-fossil-fuels-ups-global-demand-for-blood-coal/feed/ 0 Colombian Conundrum: Global demand for its fossil fuels face pleas for reform https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-global-demand-for-its-fossil-fuels-face-pleas-for-reform/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-global-demand-for-its-fossil-fuels-face-pleas-for-reform/#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:00:17 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27309 A year ago, production of Colombian “blood coal” was falling, the future of the massive El Cerrejon mine was uncertain, and a growing list of nations were banning it’s import. But following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and a personal call by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to the nation’s then president, Ivan Duque, today Colombia’s miners are expanding their operations...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-global-demand-for-its-fossil-fuels-face-pleas-for-reform/feed/ 0 It’s the Women, stupid! https://energytransition.org/2022/07/its-the-women-stupid/ https://energytransition.org/2022/07/its-the-women-stupid/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:00:09 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26999 When writing about the energy transition, one generally forgets that it’s not always about hard facts and debating the best policy solution that reaches a desired outcome, but that it’s the people who make the transition – the people who make the story. Rececca Bertram tells such a story of three indigenous women from remote areas in Costa Rica who push for an energy transition thereby increasing...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/07/its-the-women-stupid/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 Ecuador: Where David slew Goliath https://energytransition.org/2020/01/ecuador-where-david-slew-goliath/ https://energytransition.org/2020/01/ecuador-where-david-slew-goliath/#respond Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:45:10 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21557 Latin America has a long and bloody history of extractivism. The rivalry over natural resources, such as sugar, copper and oil has for many years pitted large multinational corporations – usually backed by state authorities – against local communities, often indigenous groups. It is not difficult to guess who won most of these struggles. That is why it is so newsworthy that an oil drilling project...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/01/ecuador-where-david-slew-goliath/feed/ 0 Wind energy in Mexico could jeopardize the energy transition https://energytransition.org/2019/10/21021/ https://energytransition.org/2019/10/21021/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:30:58 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21021 How can we save the planet from dangerous climate change without severing social coherence? Both large-scale, centralized installations and small-scale community-owned projects offer convincing benefits: Large–scale projects reduce the cost of electricity generation while small-scale projects directly benefit the local community. Rebecca Bertram takes a look at wind farms in Mexico. In Mexico...

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