{"id":4712,"date":"2021-06-07T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:10:15","slug":"tued-bulletin-109-a-public-energy-response-to-the-climate-emergency-a-new-labor-forum-global-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/?p=4712","title":{"rendered":"TUED Bulletin 109: A Public Energy Response to the Climate Emergency – A New Labor Forum Global Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TUED <\/a>Coordinator Sean Sweeney recently contributed to a Global Roundtable on national public energy responses to the climate emergency. A summary follows, with links to the print and podcast elements of the roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spring 2021 edition of New Labor Forum<\/em><\/a> features three contributions making the case for public ownership of energy in different national contexts: South Africa, the Republic of Ireland, and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Dominic Brown, based in Cape Town, South Africa, explains<\/a> that renewable energy advocates and much of the country\u2019s elite see the breakup and eventual privatization of the country\u2019s public utility as necessary to ending the country\u2019s dependence on coal for electricity. South African unions oppose this path and have cobbled together an alliance in defense of a reformed and \u201cdemarketized\u201d national utility to oversee what will in any case be a very challenging transition to a low-carbon economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, Sin\u00e9ad Mercier documents<\/a> the achievements of the rural electrification program pursued in the 1930s by the newly independent Republic of Ireland. She notes that the privatization agenda pursued during the last two decades by the European Union has subverted the country\u2019s public goods approach to electricity provision and has also failed to meet its climate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Sean Sweeney\u2019s\u00a0contribution<\/a>\u00a0looks at the largely unnoticed efforts by Mexico\u2019s left MORENA government to reverse the energy privatization process set in motion by previous administrations. While Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador is not a \u201cclimate champion,\u201d Sweeney suggests his actions could set the stage for a public goods approach to decarbonization. Read the full text\u00a0here<\/a>, and listen to the related podcast episode\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)<\/a>\u00a0is a global, multi-sector trade union initiative to advance democratic direction and control of energy in a way that promotes solutions to the climate crisis, energy poverty, the degradation of both land and people, and responds to the attacks on workers\u2019 rights and protections. TUED is is part of the\u00a0Global Labour Institute Network.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TUED Coordinator Sean Sweeney recently contributed to a Global Roundtable on national public energy responses to the climate emergency. A summary follows, with links to the print and podcast elements of the roundtable. The spring 2021 edition of New Labor Forum features three contributions making the case for public ownership of energy in different national contexts: South Africa, … Continue reading “TUED Bulletin 109: A Public Energy Response to the Climate Emergency – A New Labor Forum Global Roundtable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,21,15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}