5 spunti per approfondire (47/2024)

La rubrica settimanale con i consigli di lettura di RivistaEnergia.it, dall’Europa e dal mondo. Settimana 47/2024

“Food and drink, the fuel that keeps negotiators negotiating and reporters reporting, always gets a lot of attention at climate summits. At this year’s meeting, the Australian delegation is a favorite for its complimentary coffee. Another popular spot is the Azerbaijani pavilion, where the hosts are serving strong tea from gleaming silver samovars. And then there are the Singaporeans. They’re giving out free beer made from recycled toilet water. Delegates and observers at the talks, held in a retrofitted soccer stadium on the edge of Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, don’t seem to mind. In fact, the beer’s recycling credentials might add to its appeal among the environmentally minded at this summit, known as COP29.”

This Beer Is Made From Sewage. And at the Climate Summit, That’s OK
Articolo – The New York Times

“European oil firms TotalEnergies, BP, Shell and Equinor today announced a $500mn joint investment commitment “over the coming years” for universal energy access in sub-Saharan Africa and south and southeast Asia. The firms will jointly invest in a broad range of solutions, including solar home systems, mini/metro grids, clean cooking solutions, and enabling technologies such as e-mobility, energy storage and management solutions, TotalEnergies said. The investment is in support of the UN sustainable development goal 7, which aims for universal access to sustainable, affordable and reliable energy by 2030.”

Cop: Oil firms commit $500mn to energy access: Update
Articolo – Argus Media

“Europe is well off-track for its 2030 targets for 20 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen consumption and 100GW of installed electrolyser capacity, according to a new market monitoring report by the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).”

Europe ‘likely to miss’ 2030 targets for green hydrogen production and electrolyser capacity: EU agency
Articolo – Recharge

“Northvolt’s chief executive has resigned a day after Europe’s big battery hope filed for bankruptcy in the US. Peter Carlsson took responsibility for the dramatic collapse during a town-hall meeting with employees on Friday morning, the Stockholm-based company said.”

Northvolt chief resigns a day after battery maker collapses into bankruptcy
Articolo – Financial Times

“The Arctic faces major energy-related changes: its production, consumption and transportation must be decarbonised. Furthermore, geopolitical interests in the area are growing, with tensions around land use expected to increase. In this paper, we investigate energy transition processes in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic from the niche development and regime decline viewpoints. We mirror these processes onto concepts of positive and negative security to analyse the security environment affecting the transitions. We hypothesise that notions of security can explain delays in transitions. We analysed recent Finnish and Norwegian Arctic strategies and expert interviews to examine how energy transitions are discussed in the security context. Although energy and defence policies are national rather than regional, the analysis revealed interesting Arctic-wide issues. While strategies mainly concentrated on justifying support for fossil fuel production for socio-economic and national security purposes, the interviewees discussed more nuanced approaches to developing the energy transition. Notions of justice during the transition received attention in both countries in relation to security, with the local population gaining a deeper sense of responsibility for the areas they inhabit. We call for positive security to support sustainable energy transitions, where uncertainty and responses to changes are dynamic and based on multi-actor processes.”

Interrelations between security and the zero‑carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic
Ricerca – Marja Helena Sivonen, Paula Kivimaa

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