climate change – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Mon, 22 May 2023 16:51:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Ensuring that energy systems remain resilient under climate change presents new challenges for the energy sector https://energytransition.org/2023/05/ensuring-that-energy-systems-remain-resilient-under-climate-change-presents-new-challenges-for-the-energy-sector/ https://energytransition.org/2023/05/ensuring-that-energy-systems-remain-resilient-under-climate-change-presents-new-challenges-for-the-energy-sector/#respond Tue, 23 May 2023 08:00:48 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=28185 Energy resilience has come sharply into focus over the past year due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the associated energy crisis. But aside from geopolitical effects, extreme weather poses the greatest threat to maintaining reliable and affordable energy. Laiz Souto (University of Bristol) and Matthew Wright (University of Oxford, Royal Meterological Society) explain what is at stake.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2023/05/ensuring-that-energy-systems-remain-resilient-under-climate-change-presents-new-challenges-for-the-energy-sector/feed/ 0 The Caribbean’s energy conundrum https://energytransition.org/2022/06/the-caribbeans-energy-conundrum/ https://energytransition.org/2022/06/the-caribbeans-energy-conundrum/#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:00:48 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26815 Small island states tend to face a double challenge when it comes to energy: Securing sufficient energy supplies and dealing with the immediate impacts of climate change. The Caribbean – comprised of 31 individual island states – is facing the brunt of energy and climate insecurity. As the region suffers a Covid-induced economic slump in its all-important tourism industry, it is also witnessing...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/06/the-caribbeans-energy-conundrum/feed/ 0 Don’t Look Up: star-studded film is a disaster-parable on climate inaction https://energytransition.org/2022/04/dont-look-up-star-studded-film-is-a-disaster-parable-on-climate-inaction/ https://energytransition.org/2022/04/dont-look-up-star-studded-film-is-a-disaster-parable-on-climate-inaction/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:00:28 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26193 The apocalyptic film has polarized critics while furthering a global debate on our collective failure to act on the climate emergency. With Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence, since it’s release on December 24, it’s become the second-most-watched Netflix original film in the streaming platform’s history. Its popularity demonstrates a widespread hunger for...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/04/dont-look-up-star-studded-film-is-a-disaster-parable-on-climate-inaction/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 Angry Weather: Attribution Bolsters Climate Science https://energytransition.org/2021/09/angry-weather-attribution-bolsters-climate-science/ https://energytransition.org/2021/09/angry-weather-attribution-bolsters-climate-science/#respond Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:40 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24735 The implications of weather-attribution methodology, which pins individual extreme weather events to human-induced global warming, are vast. One of the pioneers of attribution science is Friederike Otto. She describes the method in her book Angry Weather: Heat waves, floods, storms, and the new science of climate change (Photo by Felix Mittermeier, CC BY-SA 4.0). Are the floods of 2021 in western...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/09/angry-weather-attribution-bolsters-climate-science/feed/ 0 Threatened masculinity as an obstacle to sustainable change https://energytransition.org/2021/06/threatened-masculinity-as-an-obstacle-to-sustainable-change/ https://energytransition.org/2021/06/threatened-masculinity-as-an-obstacle-to-sustainable-change/#respond Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:00:38 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24491 Fossil fuels are not only linked to high emissions and climate change, but are also part of a social identity that is faltering: masculinity, argues Cara Daggett, a political scientist who coined the phrase “petro-masculinity”. The transition to a more climate-friendly future is connected to the future of fossil fuels and also to challenges to (white) male privilege. This struggle is evident when...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/06/threatened-masculinity-as-an-obstacle-to-sustainable-change/feed/ 0 A cry in the desert: Poland wakes up to climate debate https://energytransition.org/2021/03/a-cry-in-the-desert/ https://energytransition.org/2021/03/a-cry-in-the-desert/#respond Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:00:38 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23673 Too late, too slow, too stifled, but it has arrived: Climate policy is finally taking centre-stage in the public debate. Michał Olszewski reports from Poland. ( Public Domain) The change is clear: not so long ago, in Poland it was fashionable to make fun of climate change or at least to be deeply sceptical of the alarming reports. Each cold spring (just like each wet summer) saw floods of derision...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/03/a-cry-in-the-desert/feed/ 0 The oil trap – Ecuador’s quest to clean up its energy mix https://energytransition.org/2021/03/the-international-oil-trap-ecuadors-quest-for-energy-transition/ https://energytransition.org/2021/03/the-international-oil-trap-ecuadors-quest-for-energy-transition/#respond Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:00:06 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24063 Climate change and international decarbonisation efforts led Ecuador to expand its renewable energy capacities. Given its significant potential for renewable energies, why is the nation unable to shake off its dependency on oil and move to a clean energy mix? Kathrin Meyer explores the factors at play in the South American country. Renewable energies in Ecuador – License: Public Domain Credit: ©...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/03/the-international-oil-trap-ecuadors-quest-for-energy-transition/feed/ 0 Edging into the hydrogen age: Carbon Brief questions if it can really solve climate change https://energytransition.org/2021/03/edging-into-the-hydrogen-age-carbon-brief-questions-if-it-can-really-solve-climate-change/ https://energytransition.org/2021/03/edging-into-the-hydrogen-age-carbon-brief-questions-if-it-can-really-solve-climate-change/#respond Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:00:20 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23641 Long recognized as an alternative to fossil fuels and once again heralded as an invaluable tool for tackling climate change, hydrogen is a key component within many of the recently announced national net-zero energy plans being rolled out by individual nations as well as the European Union. Hydrogen will likely be given a center role in new President Joe Biden’s climate plan too. To help sort out...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/03/edging-into-the-hydrogen-age-carbon-brief-questions-if-it-can-really-solve-climate-change/feed/ 0 Time for a rethink: unveiling the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s European Mobility Atlas https://energytransition.org/2021/02/23885/ https://energytransition.org/2021/02/23885/#respond Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:00:25 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23885 Achieving the goals of the European Green Deal and striking climate neutrality by 2050 means transforming the entire mobility sector, which currently makes up nearly 30 percent of the bloc’s CO2 emissions. To help steer readers in the right direction, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung’s (hbs) new 2021 European Mobility Atlas provides a host of fact-based recommendations from sector experts.

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