energy
Implications of the first wave of bailouts for energy and climate policiesThe European Union: new Crisis, same recipe?
The measures taken to deal with the health emergency arising from the spread of COVID-19 have led to an unprecedented economic slowdown. As a result, public institutions have activated plans, mechanisms and instruments that are intended to stop the shock, reactivate the economy and restore pre-pandemic normality. In this context, at a time of great uncertainty big business, like the banks during the financial crisis of 2008, is ...
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Fossil gas is gaining ground and increasing in importance in the global energy scenario. There are numerous publications and studies evaluating the risk of fuels such as crude oil and coal, but in the case of gas it is more difficult to find critical analyses of the risks involved in its promotion.
This booklet intends to show the various dimensions and risks associated with the global and European push for gas. It examines its geopolitical, economic, financial, environmental, climatic and social aspects; it analyses the role of historical development, ...
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read more "Global Gas Lock-in. Bridge to nowhere"
Report of the international conference in Brussels | 21-23 Sep 2017deutsch - english - español - françaisWhat, who, why
At the end of September 2017, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office hosted the three-day conference Global gas lock-in: linking North-South resistance. Over 50 participants – frontline communities, activists, NGOs, academics and decision-makers – gathered to discuss the dangerous impacts of gas, share their experiences and decide on international activities to work on for the year to come.
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A progressive alliance against energy poverty in the EU. Report of the energy policy workshop "Affordable Energy, a Basic Social Right – How to Abolish Energy Poverty?" | 29 May 2017 | European Parliament, BrusselsA cold home in winter and no light after dark. It is estimated that 11 per cent of the EU’s total population directly suffers from, or is at high risk of, energy poverty.(1) According to other estimates, up to 125 million EU citizens are affected.(2) Even in a wealthy country like Germany some 350,000 people are forced to live without electricity. Up...
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The large majority of Europe’s energy use today still depends on fossil fuels, mainly from oil, gas and coal. While the climate effects of oil and coal are well known, gas is still considered as a "transition fuel" and a "bridge to renewables". But the climate effects of gas are even worse than oil and coal in the short term, and environment and communities are badly affected where gas is exploited.
The gas map you find below for download gives an overview on the existing and planned gas infrastructures - with a focus on Europe. These ...
read more "Global Gas Lock-in: Bridge to Disaster – a map"
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Conference organised by the Delegation DIE LINKE. in the European Parliament and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels, in cooperation with Transform!A socially just energy transition can only be achieved together. To form this common ground, to exchange different experiences and to hold strategic discussions, it was for these reasons that representatives of European trade union federations, NGOs, think tanks, the climate movement, the scientific sector, and politicians of different levels met at the invitation of the GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament, the Rosa Luxembourg ...
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Why the world needs to go renewable and how this can workThe impact of methane on the climate, possible consequences of fracking on Aquifer systems and strong civil society movements who are resisting the extraction of fossil fuels.
Here is why the world needs to go renewable immediately and how this can work.
We have interviewed the following speakers for this video:
Robert HowarthCornell University, New York, Board of Directors for Food & Water WatchLorena RiffoTierra para Vivir, Universidad National de Comahue, ArgentinaHamza ...
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A workshop on European energy policy and alternativesThe Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office organised a workshop on European energy policies on 5-6 October 2015 in Brussels. Participants from Spain, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany exchanged views on the current European energy strategies, discussed approaches to an alternative energy policy and discovered a new challenge: Instead of an energy revolution – away from fossil fuel sources – natural gas will play an increasingly important role in politics and the economy in ...
read more "The future of electricity and gas"
read more "The future of electricity and gas"
Since its emergence within the German climate justice movement around the turn of the decade, the concept of “energy democracy” has begun to offer the seeds of a new political agenda for a progressive energy politics. Discourses of energy democracy are now circulating throughout grassroots movements, trade unions, universities and policy circles. Meanwhile, community-run energy co-operatives are proliferating rapidly, cities are reversing privatisation by taking gas and electricity back under municipal control, and in some countries like Uruguay, ...
read more "Strategies of Energy Democracy | a report"
read more "Strategies of Energy Democracy | a report"
The EU energy policy is currently focussing on gas as energy source. While the fossil energy corporations are securing their future, support for renewable energy sources is increasingly being undermined.
The full report is available in German.
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