My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳 It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects - BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon #hydrogen plants in recent months HT @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/b098...

Denmark's EIFO provides EUR 100 million loan for strategic lithium production in Germany www.eifo.dk/en/knowledge...

Pleased to share our new article, which examines Mozambique's energy transition as multiple, socially/ spatially uneven, and contested -thanks to @marcusjpower.bsky.social for leading this, and Lorraine Howe and Carlos Shenga for your many insights www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for Conference Papers: International Conference on the Political Economy of Energy Transitions and Inequality in Africa. Join us at this conference, which will take place 30-31 March 2026, University of Ghana, Accra. Please see the full Call via: www.ug.edu.gh/announcement...

What Went Wrong in Tanzania? How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos - and where it goes from here. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/06/t...

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍 What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world? A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟 Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

NEW – Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

The election on Wednesday was supposed to cement President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s legitimacy as president of the United Republic. According to the story told by the country’s electoral authority, and state-run media outlets, it did exactly that. The story on Tanzania’s streets is very different.

Huge, unprecedented protests in Tanzania yesterday. I've found literally one post on bluesky. This is why some of us can't fully shut our twitter accounts, much as we might wish to.

"The world remains in an energy addition mode, rather than a clear transition." Quite a comprehensive summary of the solar revolution from the FT.

Tightening repression guarantees Samia Suluhu Hassan’s victory, but has strained her own party. Will she and her party come out stronger?

The race for nuclear power in Africa continues: www.theafricareport.com/393986/kenya...

'China signed a $1.4 billion agreement with Zambia and Tanzania on Monday to upgrade the TAZARA railway' www.ecofinagency.com/news-infrast...

Yes, what a graph but there may be a downside to it toddmoss.substack.com/p/africa-nee...

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Read our comment on the NDCs in Africa prior to the COP in Brazil: 'A faltering process: Unpredictable funding undermines the development of ambitious African climate plans' www.development-today.com/archive/2025...

Mission 300, championed by the World Bank & the AfDB, among others, needs a new mission. Electrifying African firms for growth and development: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...

As #Ethiopia finally gets ready to inaugurate the #GERD, read about the history of Ethiopian dam building and the story of the GERD in this open access book (download link below) or a shorter thread below.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Orca Energy Group Inc. announces arbitrations against the United Republic of Tanzania and Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation over US$1.2 billion Project www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

US & Russia coercing countries to lock in carbon. But "countries w green industrial bases & supportive domestic political coalitions are more resilient to such pressure." Two policy briefs: 1 plataformacipo.org/en/publicati... 2 www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-... bsky.app/profile/bhbr...

New Paper Alert!📢 "Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence" by @adreher.bsky.social‬ Jingke Pan @cjschneider.bsky.social To understand how foreign aid can unintentionally fuel political violence in fragile democracies, read the full study here: 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

The unintended effects of foreign aid is 'higher levels of targeted political violence against local authorities and politicians, in particular during elections and in contexts with weak institutions and strong informal politics.' Interesting paper on aid, rent-seeking, and elections

No, it's not the case that only China is responsible for the large decline in extreme poverty over the past decades. We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china

History of energy transitions. (source: Critical Minerals Journal) 

A great Kenyan has rested. RIP.

Ugandan activist alleges she was raped while in Tanzanian detention www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reading this new book about the high expectations to PPPs mobilising private sector infrastructure investments in developing countries. And the development finance industry's continued lobbying for the model despite limited demonstrated success:

What can be learned about local content in oil and gas in Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania, that can be relevant for the promotion of employment and local firms in solar and wind in Africa? Read our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An interesting new paper by colleagues EdzePaula and Ulrich Elmer Hansen on local content and local learning and capabilities from large-scale solar projects in Ghana: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jobs and development do not come easily in Africa’s energy transitions. Read our latest article on what can be learned from petroleum of relevance to solar and wind: Local content and linkage development in African energy transitions - www.diis.dk/en/research/...

An interesting new paper on the political economy of mini-grids in Ghana by my colleague Abdul-Bassit Abubakar is out: Ghana’s electrification via rural mini-grids has been disappointing - www.diis.dk/en/research/...

How to reliably electrify African countries for growth and development: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...

I highly recommend this piece by the brilliant Dr. Zainab Usman of @carnegieendowment.org‬: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... via @foreignaffairs.com

The importance of energy security in an age of electrification, renewable energy: x.com/JavierBlas/s...

My piece in the NYTimes on tariffs' effects on poor nations. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

Diesel generators seem to be everywhere these days, chuntering on in the background. But *why* are they everywhere? Where do generators sit in our grand schemes for electrifying the world? Camillo Stubenberg and I have a new paper coming out soon that tries to answer these questions. 🧵👇 1/13

New postdoc position on political economy with state-business relations in Ukraine as a case. It is a shared position between DIIS and Copenhagen Business School www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

US pulls out of flagship $45bn global climate finance coalition - the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) www.ft.com/content/e8b7...

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

In a new open-access article, Pritish Behuria argues that 'just transition' discussions have overlooked how Africa is unfairly integrated into the green economy, sustaining economic dependence on wealthier regions. Read in full here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Earlyview #Openaccess 'The Green Economy and the Global South' by @hochstet.bsky.social #greeneconomy #globalsouth #RegGov See abstract 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting new article by our colleague in @EnergyStruggles, Paula Edze, on the effect of local content requirements in the solar PV industry in Ghana: Local content requirements for the transfer of knowledge and skills in... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I would say investments in the grid and basic infrastructure are needed more than adding more renewables...