Michael Davies-Venn – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:22:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Africans taking the bull by the horn to Sharm El Shiekh https://energytransition.org/2022/11/africans-taking-the-bull-by-the-horn-to-sharm-el-shiekh/ https://energytransition.org/2022/11/africans-taking-the-bull-by-the-horn-to-sharm-el-shiekh/#respond Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:00:22 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27531 Africa will host international climate talks on 6-18 November 2022 and the African Union has been busy trying to get the rest of the world’s attention on the continent’s expectations in the lead up to COP27. Of course, COP27 expectations are matched only by their disappointments. However, Africans are not leaving the fate of its people to chance. Climate negotiations are not helped by the fact...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/11/africans-taking-the-bull-by-the-horn-to-sharm-el-shiekh/feed/ 0 Europe must use its REPowerEU to REPowerAfrica https://energytransition.org/2022/08/europe-must-use-its-repowereu-to-repowerafrica/ https://energytransition.org/2022/08/europe-must-use-its-repowereu-to-repowerafrica/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:00:07 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27079 For German chancellor Olaf Scholz to fly to West Africa and on arrival ensures he tells his host that he “ quite deliberately chose Senegal as the first stop” is strong indication that Germany, and the rest of Europe, looks to president Macky Sall among others in Africa to rescue Europe from its “burgeoning energy crisis”. Mr. Scholz ‘first stop’ wasn’t arbitrary. It was strategic because Senegal...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/08/europe-must-use-its-repowereu-to-repowerafrica/feed/ 0 RePowerEU must only be a short-term solution to avert the worse https://energytransition.org/2022/08/repowereu-must-only-be-a-short-term-solution-to-avert-the-worse/ https://energytransition.org/2022/08/repowereu-must-only-be-a-short-term-solution-to-avert-the-worse/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:00:55 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27063 A diplomatic solution is the only plausible solution to the on-going Russia’s war in Ukraine and it remains elusive. Meanwhile, the energy crisis which is a fallout of the war persists as fiercely as it compromises climate change solutions. From Berlin to Brussels, politicians are struggling with a related imminent crisis, which is how to reduce the growing millions of Europe’s “ energy poor” the...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/08/repowereu-must-only-be-a-short-term-solution-to-avert-the-worse/feed/ 0 Russia’s invasion is hampering Africa’s energy transition and decarbonisation https://energytransition.org/2022/06/russias-invasion-is-hampering-africas-energy-transition-and-decarbonisation/ https://energytransition.org/2022/06/russias-invasion-is-hampering-africas-energy-transition-and-decarbonisation/#respond Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:50:52 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26777 As war rages in Ukraine and links between energy and economic growth become clearer while the global impetus for transitioning to renewable energy looses pace mostly in developing countries. But this outcome could be avoided in the future if promised rapid investments on renewable energy become real. Meanwhile, we are experiencing unusual climatic impacts, such as persistent droughts...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/06/russias-invasion-is-hampering-africas-energy-transition-and-decarbonisation/feed/ 0 Setting sail renewable energy technologies from Berlin to Bamako and beyond https://energytransition.org/2021/12/setting-sail-renewable-energy-technologies-from-berlin-to-bamako-and-beyond/ https://energytransition.org/2021/12/setting-sail-renewable-energy-technologies-from-berlin-to-bamako-and-beyond/#respond Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:00:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25771 In an earlier series on articles of the Paris Agreement, Michael Davies-Venn analysed policy options to implement Article 6. Focus here is on Article 10, which provides a technology development and transfer framework premised on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism. Developed countries promised to “promote, facilitate and finance, as appropriate...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/12/setting-sail-renewable-energy-technologies-from-berlin-to-bamako-and-beyond/feed/ 0 The quest for equity, fairness and justice in an international carbon market https://energytransition.org/2021/11/the-quest-for-equity-fairness-and-justice-in-an-international-carbon-market/ https://energytransition.org/2021/11/the-quest-for-equity-fairness-and-justice-in-an-international-carbon-market/#respond Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:00:08 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25269 A carbon market may reduce carbon emissions as shown by the European Union’s Emissions Trading System ( EU-ETS). But market-based approaches to climate change raise several issues that politicians need to resolve during COP 26 in Glasgow. In this last article in a series of analysis into Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, Michael Davies-Venn explores how injustice, unfairness and inequity are...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/11/the-quest-for-equity-fairness-and-justice-in-an-international-carbon-market/feed/ 0 Carbon markets are stalling speedy global climate action https://energytransition.org/2021/09/carbon-markets-are-stalling-speedy-global-climate-action/ https://energytransition.org/2021/09/carbon-markets-are-stalling-speedy-global-climate-action/#respond Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:00:04 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24747 Six years on from the cheers, claps and cries to welcome the Paris Agreement, global temperatures and emissions are rising, as dusk settles on the promise the agreement holds for planet Earth. It’s fading hope is today matched with faltering efforts to implement its Article 6. Michael Davies-Venn argues that failures to reach agreements on Article 6 illustrates an unfortunate mistake of conceiving...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/09/carbon-markets-are-stalling-speedy-global-climate-action/feed/ 0 Europe to hit decarbonation target but has its energy rules changed much in Member States https://energytransition.org/2020/12/europe-to-hit-decarbonation-target-but-has-its-energy-rules-changed-much-in-member-states/ https://energytransition.org/2020/12/europe-to-hit-decarbonation-target-but-has-its-energy-rules-changed-much-in-member-states/#respond Fri, 25 Dec 2020 14:00:38 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23745 Ten years after implementing EU rules to reduce carbon emissions by 20 percent, improve energy efficiency equally so and consume renewable energy by that same number, the European Commission will now look at the results from Member States (MS) implementing its 2009 Renewable Energy Directive (RED). The RED was supposed to establish “a common framework” to promote and use renewable energy.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/12/europe-to-hit-decarbonation-target-but-has-its-energy-rules-changed-much-in-member-states/feed/ 0 EU Climate Law: business as usual or blueprint for climate action? https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23613/ https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23613/#respond Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:00:58 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23613 In what may seem a last ditch effort, the European Union has turned to the slow churning wheels of the law to stimulate climate action in 27 Member States (MS) towards a single goal: a carbon neutral Europe by 2050. European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen puts on a warm smile to say the text of the proposed European Union Climate Law is “actually rather short and it is rather...

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