featured – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Why Latin America’s environmentalist murder ranking won’t improve anytime soon https://energytransition.org/2021/09/why-latin-americas-environmentalist-murder-ranking-wont-improve-anytime-soon/ https://energytransition.org/2021/09/why-latin-americas-environmentalist-murder-ranking-wont-improve-anytime-soon/#respond Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:10:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24753 For the past years, Latin America has topped the list of the most dangerous region for environmental activists in the world. According to Global Witness, more than two-thirds of all respective assassinations recorded globally take place here with Colombia being the most dangerous country for environmental activists in the world. Following the IACHR hearing on the human rights situation in Bajo...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/09/why-latin-americas-environmentalist-murder-ranking-wont-improve-anytime-soon/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 South Africa’s new energy policy is a game-changer for Africa’s biggest carbon polluter https://energytransition.org/2021/09/south-africas-new-energy-policy-is-a-game-changer-for-africas-biggest-carbon-polluter/ https://energytransition.org/2021/09/south-africas-new-energy-policy-is-a-game-changer-for-africas-biggest-carbon-polluter/#respond Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:00:14 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24673 What better way to set a country on a path to a just transition than to allow lower-income families to harvest the free solar energy falling on or around their homes, and sell it to the national grid? After years of regulatory deadlock on the private sale of electricity in South Africa, sudden tectonic policy changes mean community energy co-operatives might be able to join the energy supply...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/09/south-africas-new-energy-policy-is-a-game-changer-for-africas-biggest-carbon-polluter/feed/ 0 The EU’s New Plastics Economy is Breaking Ground https://energytransition.org/2021/08/the-eus-new-plastics-economy-is-breaking-ground/ https://energytransition.org/2021/08/the-eus-new-plastics-economy-is-breaking-ground/#respond Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:00:20 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24663 Europe is doubling down on efforts to curtail plastics production and waste. There’s much other continents can replicate – and plenty of room for improvement. Plastic waste remains a big problem in the EU despite some progress (Photo by Thomas Max Müller / pixelio.de, CC BY-SA 4.0) In an all-out push to clean up Europe’s beaches – one plank of the EU’s trailblazing efforts to curb the 25.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/08/the-eus-new-plastics-economy-is-breaking-ground/feed/ 0 Wriggling Out of the Hydropower Conundrum https://energytransition.org/2020/01/wriggling-out-of-the-hydropower-conundrum/ https://energytransition.org/2020/01/wriggling-out-of-the-hydropower-conundrum/#comments Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:30:59 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21641 It’s basically emissions free and a cornerstone of today’s global renewable energy supply. But many hydro-electric plants destroy rivers and the communities that live in and around them. Are hydropower’s intrusive dams the price we have to pay for carbon neutrality? Paul Hockenos reports Hydroelectric power plants can have a harmful effect on their immediate environment. ( Public Domain) Renewable...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/01/wriggling-out-of-the-hydropower-conundrum/feed/ 1 Geothermal Has to Step Up to Keep Europe Warm and Hit Climate Targets https://energytransition.org/2020/01/geothermal-has-to-step-up-to-keep-europe-warm-and-hit-climate-targets/ https://energytransition.org/2020/01/geothermal-has-to-step-up-to-keep-europe-warm-and-hit-climate-targets/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:00:42 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21489 Long renewable energy’s black sheep, this multitasking energy source has a bright future but only if geothermal developers can dispel the myths around it while lowering the risks to development. While wind and solar continue to gain in popularity, a new project in Bavaria is showing that heat from the Earth’s core can lead the way. Paul Hockenos shows us how. The energy transition requires changes...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/01/geothermal-has-to-step-up-to-keep-europe-warm-and-hit-climate-targets/feed/ 1 Fracking chaos: As debt-ridden gas producers go bankrupt, who’ll be left to clean up their mess? https://energytransition.org/2020/01/fracking-chaos-as-debt-ridden-gas-producers-go-bankrupt-wholl-be-left-to-clean-up-their-mess/ https://energytransition.org/2020/01/fracking-chaos-as-debt-ridden-gas-producers-go-bankrupt-wholl-be-left-to-clean-up-their-mess/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:00:30 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21621 Though fracking enabled the U.S. to finally re-achieve the long held conservative dream of energy independence, the ever-increasing volume of fracked fossil gas flowing out of the U.S., has led to an international glut as prices continue to fall. Now neck-deep in debt and historically unprofitable, pure play gas frackers are starting to struggle. Mass bankruptcies, shut-ins, and layoffs are likely.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/01/fracking-chaos-as-debt-ridden-gas-producers-go-bankrupt-wholl-be-left-to-clean-up-their-mess/feed/ 0 Electrifying Africa from the Bottom Up: Will Patient Capital Bring Change? https://energytransition.org/2020/01/electrifying-africa-from-the-bottom-up/ https://energytransition.org/2020/01/electrifying-africa-from-the-bottom-up/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:00:14 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21601 The shooting-star solar provider Mobisol claimed that the private sector could do what US presidents, the UN, the EU, and hundreds of aid organizations had failed at: namely bringing electricity to all of Africa. But last year it filed for insolvency. The French energy giant Engie, however, has stepped in, and wants to make good on Mobisol’s dream. Paul Hockenos reports Solar technology-based...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/01/electrifying-africa-from-the-bottom-up/feed/ 1 German wind and renewables overpower filthy lignite and hard coal in 2019 https://energytransition.org/2020/01/german-wind-and-renewables-overpower-filthy-lignite-and-hard-coal-in-2019/ https://energytransition.org/2020/01/german-wind-and-renewables-overpower-filthy-lignite-and-hard-coal-in-2019/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:00:26 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21587 Preliminary figures conclusively reveal that renewables produced over 40 percent of Germany’s electricity in 2019. Combined with offshore production, wind energy overtook both filthy lignite and hard coal, and has now become the nation’s largest energy source. But as fossil gas prices fall and the ruling government’s fragile coalition stumbles its way through the Energiewende it created...

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