fossil fuels – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:26:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Losing Lützerath: To save Germany, the occupied village must be destroyed https://energytransition.org/2023/01/losing-lutzerath-to-save-germany-the-occupied-village-must-be-destroyed/ https://energytransition.org/2023/01/losing-lutzerath-to-save-germany-the-occupied-village-must-be-destroyed/#respond Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:00:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27827 By the time you read this, the village of Lützerath may already be gone – part of the price paid for getting RWE, Germany’s largest energy producer, to stop mining and burning brown coal by 2030. Yet short term, RWE is ramping generation at their lignite-burning plants, among the most polluting in Europe, to make up for sanctioned Russian gas and help Germany get through the next two winters.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2023/01/losing-lutzerath-to-save-germany-the-occupied-village-must-be-destroyed/feed/ 0 Winter is coming – plastic must go https://energytransition.org/2022/10/winter-is-coming-plastic-must-go/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/winter-is-coming-plastic-must-go/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2022 10:00:05 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27353 Scientists and climate activists have highlighed and warned against the significant global warming impact of fossil gas and an expansion of related infrastructure. Furthermore, analysts have also repeatedly criticized Europe’s deep dependency from Russia – created particular by Germany with the help of petrochemical giant BASF and it’s daughter Wintershall Dea. Putin’s war in Ukraine is forcing...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/winter-is-coming-plastic-must-go/feed/ 0 East Asia’s top economies to rise as top importers of Russian fossil fuels by end of year https://energytransition.org/2022/09/east-asias-top-economies-to-rise-as-top-importers-of-russian-fossil-fuels-by-end-of-year/ https://energytransition.org/2022/09/east-asias-top-economies-to-rise-as-top-importers-of-russian-fossil-fuels-by-end-of-year/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:00:42 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27199 While media coverage has mainly focused on China and India’s record-level imports, other countries in Asia – particularly East Asia – have also been among the top global importers of Russian energy – and are therefore also implicit contributors to the war effort. A new data visualization website shows that countries in the region are likely to become top importers of Russian fossil fuels once...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/09/east-asias-top-economies-to-rise-as-top-importers-of-russian-fossil-fuels-by-end-of-year/feed/ 0 A Total mess https://energytransition.org/2022/08/a-total-mess/ https://energytransition.org/2022/08/a-total-mess/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:00:01 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27037 TOTAL is creating a social and economic disaster in Mozambique, consulting the same playbook it uses in Myanmar and Yemen where it extracts resources and silences communities. Ilham Rawoot and Daniel Ribeiro report. This article was originally published in Africa Is a Country. TOTAL is creating a multi-level disaster. (Photo by Alf van Beem, CC 4.0) Since oil and gas multinational TOTAL showed its...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/08/a-total-mess/feed/ 0 The New Energy Charter Treaty in Light of The Climate Emergency  https://energytransition.org/2022/07/the-new-energy-charter-treaty-in-light-of-the-climate-emergency%e2%80%af/ https://energytransition.org/2022/07/the-new-energy-charter-treaty-in-light-of-the-climate-emergency%e2%80%af/#respond Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:00:02 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26957 After 2 years and 15 negotiation rounds, on June 24, 2022, the Contracting Parties of the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”) finaly reached an agreement in principle on a reform of the Treaty. The deal, the detailed text of which remains confidential, contains a package of amendments and changes meant to modernise the Treaty’s investment provisions and bring it in line with the Paris Agreement (the...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/07/the-new-energy-charter-treaty-in-light-of-the-climate-emergency%e2%80%af/feed/ 0 The most dangerous radicals are those ignoring the IPCC https://energytransition.org/2022/07/the-most-dangerous-radicals-are-those-ignoring-the-ipcc/ https://energytransition.org/2022/07/the-most-dangerous-radicals-are-those-ignoring-the-ipcc/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:00:32 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26941 Russia’s invasion into Ukraine coincided with the release of two sweeping assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the perilous state of our planet’s health. Desperately warning of the need to get off fossil fuels, as the body starts hammering out a synthesis report, lead blogger and podcaster Michael Buchsbaum reflects on how Europe’s desperate attempts to find...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/07/the-most-dangerous-radicals-are-those-ignoring-the-ipcc/feed/ 0 GFANZ must tighten the screw on fossil fuel expansion https://energytransition.org/2022/07/gfanz-must-tighten-the-screw-on-fossil-fuel-expansion/ https://energytransition.org/2022/07/gfanz-must-tighten-the-screw-on-fossil-fuel-expansion/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2022 10:00:29 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26839 Pressure on the fossil fuel industry to stop developing new projects and to start to phase out the production of coal, oil and gas is steadily increasing. On May 18, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated unequivocally that “Fossil fuels are a dead end — environmentally and economically. […] We must end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/07/gfanz-must-tighten-the-screw-on-fossil-fuel-expansion/feed/ 0 How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to save the climate – and cost countries billions https://energytransition.org/2022/05/how-treaties-protecting-fossil-fuel-investors-could-jeopardize-global-efforts-to-save-the-climate-and-cost-countries-billions/ https://energytransition.org/2022/05/how-treaties-protecting-fossil-fuel-investors-could-jeopardize-global-efforts-to-save-the-climate-and-cost-countries-billions/#respond Tue, 31 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26643 Fossil fuel companies have access to an obscure legal tool that could jeopardize worldwide efforts to protect the climate, and they’re starting to use it. The result could cost countries that press ahead with those efforts billions of dollars. Rachel Thrasher, Blake Alexander Simmons and Dr. Kyla Tienhaara discuss the issue. This article was originally published in The Conversation.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/05/how-treaties-protecting-fossil-fuel-investors-could-jeopardize-global-efforts-to-save-the-climate-and-cost-countries-billions/feed/ 0 LNG terminals for Germany Part II: Climate impacts, possible suppliers and priorities in an energy and climate crisis https://energytransition.org/2022/04/lng-terminals-for-germany-part-ii-climate-impacts-possible-suppliers-and-priorities-in-an-energy-and-climate-crisis/ https://energytransition.org/2022/04/lng-terminals-for-germany-part-ii-climate-impacts-possible-suppliers-and-priorities-in-an-energy-and-climate-crisis/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:00:54 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26399 On April 4, 2022, the IPCC published he third part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Referring to the findings and key results, UN General Secretary António Guterres said that “investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness” while also outlining that “such investments will soon become stranded assets”. In this blog post...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/04/lng-terminals-for-germany-part-ii-climate-impacts-possible-suppliers-and-priorities-in-an-energy-and-climate-crisis/feed/ 0 Energy in Southeast Asia Series I: Pursuing Energiewende in the region https://energytransition.org/2022/04/energy-in-southeast-asia-series-i-pursuing-energiewende-in-the-region/ https://energytransition.org/2022/04/energy-in-southeast-asia-series-i-pursuing-energiewende-in-the-region/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:00:13 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26163 Southeast Asia’s Energiewende is already underway, albeit it needs to be sped up and its ambitions increased. There is a regional understanding that the transition to renewables must occur but serious work to translate this vision into reality remains missing. Policy, however, is not attuned to this need to accelerate. Energy generation is still with the hands of energy elites. Laurence L.

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