This a very important and powerful manifesto from peoples of the Global South demanding a just #ecosocial energy transition.
Especially recommend reading to those of us living in the Global North who are constantly bombarded by technology-driven "clean energy transitions" that are touted as "win-win".
#ClimateJustice #degrowth #DebtForClimate
https://fpif.org/manifesto-for-an-ecosocial-energy-transition-from-the-peoples-of-the-south/
@ttiurani I'm not getting a clear vision from this manifesto. There's a tension between demanding "considerable transfer of funds and appropriate technology" and rejecting "corporate megaprojects". How do we get "alternative, decentralized, equitably distributed projects of renewable energy that are owned and operated by communities themselves" with centralised funding?
@nemobis I see no tension between the kinds of "polluter pays" loss and damages payments and tech transfers, and rejecting corporates taking profits from them. The former is (mostly) public sector the latter private.
With that kind of public sector support, together with dropping extortive debts, the decentralized projects can be built without excessive profit motives.
@ttiurani There's (almost) no mention of profits in the manifesto, where do you get the impression that's their goal?
Do you have a positive example in mind of international funding for such projects?
@nemobis True they should have been clearer on moving away from profit motives. However, that is IMO quite undeniably implied with "ecosocial" in the title and:
"The engines of this unjust status quo—capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, and various fundamentalisms—are making a bad situation worse."
@ttiurani Maybe, but that's not how I read that sentence. It sounds like a criticism of multinational monopolies and oligopolies mostly. It doesn't sound to me like they're against cooperatives or SMEs.
Anyway, that's nit-picking. I'm more interested in whether there's any positive example of what they suggest. Personally I don't believe it's possible. Any form of international aid recreates colonialist structures. To pay down climate debt, the historical polluters need to act at home first.
@nemobis "Any form of international aid recreates colonialist structures."
I agree that aid via the NPIC is not viable, but object to "any form". We need to find better ways to pay damages than via the "development" machinery. IMO it's too much to ask these details from a manifesto (there's probably more ideaa behind this, but don't know of them myself).
"To pay down climate debt, the historical polluters need to act at home first."
IMO sequental plans are unjust. Both and.
@ttiurani I'm not asking details, but I'm not even getting any general direction of where to look.
For example, are they fine with building on top of the Paris Agreement? No clue.