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Energy storage and climate colonialism

The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality

It has been argued that the Global North owes the Global South a climate debt due to historical climate colonialism (Abimbola et al., 2021) and the ever-increasing colonization of the atmosphere (Belcher et al., 2020) and confronting this and reconfiguring alternative and just energy transitions remain a challenge.

Just Transition | A Climate, Energy and Development Vision for

Colonialism moulded Africa''s economies and societies to meet the labour and material needs of Western industrialisation and development. carbon capture and storage, geo-engineering. report has been funded by a Climate Breakthrough Award and a Rockefeller Brothers Fund grant in support of the Africa Climate, Energy and Development

Confronting Climate Coloniality | Decolonizing Pathways for Climate

Confronting Climate Coloniality exposes how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis, create disproportionate impacts on those who contributed the least to climate change, and influence global and local responses. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through processes of neoliberalism

The coloniality of green extractivism: Unearthing decarbonisation

The climate crisis is deepening and accelerating, highlighting the urgent need to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. As a response, ambitious political and economic programmes for transitioning away from fossil fuels are being proposed, largely aimed at expanding investments in renewable energy generation and electric transport. 1 The most

Carbon colonialism must be challenged if we want to make climate

But these targets will never be able to properly challenge the climate crisis without first tackling the implicit "carbon colonialism" that underpins the UK''s approach to climate change

The Hidden Costs of Climate Colonialism on Africa''s Energy Future

A growing dependency on renewable energy sources—often touted as the panacea for climate challenges—does not align with the immediate needs of many African nations. Wind and solar energy, while noble pursuits, cannot provide the reliable and affordable energy necessary for economic development at this moment.

Colonialism, Infrastructure Projects Bring Climate Migration to

The Role of Climate Change. In addition to the historic displacement of Indigenous peoples to further colonial policies, the forced relocation of communities due to climate and weather events is a contemporary Canadian reality. Displaced from their traditional territories, many First Nations now reside on a fraction of their original land base.

Renewable Energy and Settler Colonialism

As Diné scholar Andrew Curley wrote in his recent book, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation, "colonialism is a shape-shifter."In this sustainability renaissance, green technologies—including renewable energy infrastructure in the form of photovoltaic solar fields, wind turbines, geothermal plants, and hydroelectric

Energy Storage

Energy storage is a technology that holds energy at one time so it can be used at another time. Building more energy storage allows renewable energy sources like wind and solar to power more of our electric grid.As the cost of solar and wind power has in many places dropped below fossil fuels, the need for cheap and abundant energy storage has become a key challenge for

How Colonialism Accelerated Climate Change

How Colonialism Kick Started Climate Change Shanty Town, Cape Town: Chell Hill: CC 3.0. The fruits of colonialism delivered two severe blows to Earth''s sustainability. Settlers destroyed huge swathes of forests to supply food, tea,

Renewable Energy and Settler Colonialism

It cannot simply be about clean energy resourcing and climate mitigation; renewable energy development must also challenge the notion of capitalist growth, settler coloniality, and corporate-backed development in order to achieve sovereignty, agency, and

Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in

Nahla Chahal, Professor of political sociology, Editor-in-Chief, As-Safir Al-Arabi ''[T]his book serves as a crucial link in the collective efforts and common priorities of climate experts and climate justice advocates in Arab countries who, moreover, refuse the new colonialism that is disguised in some agendas around addressing climate change

Energy colonialism, climate reparations: COP27 and key

As countries from across the globe come together at COP27 to take action on the collective goals under the Paris Agreement and Convention from 6-8 November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, here are the key concepts you must know about: Energy colonialism The concept of Energy colonialism became a highlight at COP27 when think tank Power Shift Africa''s

Energy Colonialism

Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. Recently, particularly controversies over "loss and damage" have sparked debate on climate colonialism, with COP27

Colonialism, the climate crisis, and the need to center Indigenous

American settler colonialism Indigenous peoples'' rally outside COP26 venue, Glasgow, on November 1, 2021. (Credit: Friends of the Earth International/flickr) Settler colonialism is a particular form of colonial power that "involves the settler making a home in a land that is already home to Indigenous people." In the U.S. even movements like

Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate

sion reduction targets every five years and provide climate finance to help other nations adapt to climate change and transition to renewable energy. Although these steps were portrayed as positive, what COP-26 did not address was the issue of wealthy countries shifting emissions outside their national borders to evade responsibility.

Energy Colonialism: A Category to Analyse the Corporate Energy

This article aims to define the category of energy colonialism in order to analyse the conflicts that are arising due to the deployment of renewable energy megaprojects in the Global South and in the peripheries of the Global North. First, the limits of the corporate energy transition are questioned, and based on an exhaustive bibliographic review, the category of

How energy sector neo-colonialism is holding Africa back from

Decentralised, bottom-up, solar-and-storage grids will be crucial in Sub-Saharan Africa''s energy transition. Image: EDF. There has been a noticeable paradigm shift in the way the world is

How Colonialism Spawned and Continues to

And the pervasive and persistent institutions of colonialism make it far more challenging to address the climate crisis and implement solutions, especially in a just and equitable way. A 2021 study published in Nature

Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the

Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, London, Pluto Press, 2023, xi + 285pp., index. £22.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 978 0 7453 4921 3 which is not only a victim of the inequalities of the global climate system and energy transition, but also a driver of

Colonialism and the climate crisis

It is equally important to note that Indigenous communities have had a historic — and consistent — role in climate activism.For instance, Indigenous women in Brazil are marching to protect Indigenous land from exploitation, Indigenous activists in Minnesota are working to stop the construction of the Line 3 pipeline, and First Nations in Australia are demanding a seat at

Event Highlight: Climate and Colonialism, Can We Do better?

My Climate Risk''s Education Working Group organized a 2-day webinar on Climate and Colonialism on October 5 and 6, 2023. The sessions posed the essential question ''can we do better''? During both days, participants gave a reflection on the different ways today''s climate science and environmental policies perpetuate colonial bias.

Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justi

Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region. Hamza Hamouchene storage, and distribution. The energy sector must be considered a public service, co-managed by the workers involved and the local populations who agree to share part of their territories (land, water, forests, etc) for the collective interest. In

Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, and Climate Change

It argues that climate change poses a serious obstacle to current decolonization efforts that seek to rectify colonial injustices and revive Indigenous self-governance as long as they are embedded in the framework of a Western settler ethnogeography. 2 There are three land-related harms of colonialism, namely land theft, denial of collective

Green colonialism in Latin America? Towards a new research

This editorial examines the intricate landscape of local climate action in Latin America. It explores the interplay between local initiatives, global agendas, and the potential for innovative and

Energy Transition in North Africa: Colonialism, Dispossession,

A few examples from the North African region (particularly in Morocco) come to mind. They all show how energy colonialism is reproduced through green colonialism or green grabbing. Morocco''s goal to increase the share of renewable energy in its energy mix to 52% by 2030, in terms of installed capacity, is laudable.

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