The energy transition narrative that has been used across Africa is just install more solar panels, build mini-grids, install solar irrigation systems, and rural development follows. International lenders see renewable energy as a route to climate resilience; governments recognize green infrastructure as evidence of modernisation and donors consider installations as tangible development achievements. But behind […]
Lack of information is no longer a barrier to climate communication. Over the last few decades, scientists, politicians and campaigners have produced ever more publications, campaigns and media material warning of environmental disaster. Emissions are still increasing even though this is a saturated market and behavioural change is limited. These perpetual gaps, otherwise referred to […]
The push for ‘clean cooking’ is one of the best-resourced areas of climate and development policy in Africa. Governments and donors and international agencies urge people to abandon charcoal and firewood consumption in favour of consumption of electricity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), improved cook stoves and other alternatives. The argument is familiar: charcoal causes deforestation, […]
Climate justice is now one of the key issues in international climate politics. This has been a long-standing argument among the countries of the Global South that industrialized countries are responsible for most of the historical GHG emissions and should pay climate damages to vulnerable countries. It is a valid ethic and scientific justification. Compensation […]
Climate activism has always been posed with a question, should it be primarily focused on the environment, or other social movements? This question is even more pressing today, because today climate change is related to nearly all the challenges society is facing. It impacts food systems, health, housing, jobs, migration, inequality, energy access, land, trade […]
Teuku Muhammad Valdy Arief 
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