The Energy Transition Is Leading to "Green Colonialism," Says Oxfam

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At the heart of the green transition, Africa supplies minerals but would reap only debts and inequalities. An injustice that Oxfam denounces in a report on the plundering of the continent's resources for the benefit of the countries and multinationals of the North.

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Wednesday, September 24th is holding a high-level event on climate action at the UN General Assembly, while in about a month and a half the COP30 opens in Brazil. Oxfam warns about an energy transition deemed "unfair". The NGO points to the energy overconsumption of the richest percent who could meet seven times the basic needs of people currently without electricity. The report also denounces what Oxfam calls a "climate colonialism".

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Minerals for the energy transition, extracted in the Global South, are being monopolized by the ultra-rich in the West, Oxfam denounces in a report. This practice reinforces destructive colonial patterns. Banishing hydrocarbons from our daily lives and turning our attention to renewables. This is the goal of the energy transition, defended and encouraged for many years in response to the climate crisis. However, to bring about this transformatio…

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Oxfam is publishing a new report entitled "Inequitable Transition: Resuming Control over the Energy Future in the Face of Climate Colonialism", which highlights an alarming reality: the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies is now taken over by the ultra-rich — individuals, companies and states — who replicate colonial logics, exacerbate inequalities and fuel human rights violations.