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Beware Europe’s New Green Colonialism

Bassey, Nnimmo ; Bringle, Breno ; Buitrago, Liliana ; Kumar, Madhuresh ; Naidu, Kavita ; Ramasar, Vasna LU and Svampa, Maristella (2023)
Abstract
Europe is leading the world in cutting carbon emissions. By 2020, the European Union had reduced emissions by an estimated 34 percent compared to 1990 levels, which puts its promised 55 percent reduction by 2030 safely within reach. By comparison, the United States has managed only a 7 percent reduction over the same period.

However, this European success story comes with a big asterisk. The EU has made these cuts largely thanks to the Global South. Make no mistake: it is not an equal partnership. A new “Green colonialism” dominates North-South relations, and it comes in two principal forms.
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energy, transition, colonialism
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2 pages
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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung/Kickass Books
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English
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  abstract     = {{Europe is leading the world in cutting carbon emissions. By 2020, the European Union had reduced emissions by an estimated 34 percent compared to 1990 levels, which puts its promised 55 percent reduction by 2030 safely within reach. By comparison, the United States has managed only a 7 percent reduction over the same period.<br/><br/>However, this European success story comes with a big asterisk. The EU has made these cuts largely thanks to the Global South. Make no mistake: it is not an equal partnership. A new “Green colonialism” dominates North-South relations, and it comes in two principal forms.}},
  author       = {{Bassey, Nnimmo and Bringle, Breno and Buitrago, Liliana and Kumar, Madhuresh and Naidu, Kavita and Ramasar, Vasna and Svampa, Maristella}},
  keywords     = {{energy; transition; colonialism}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  publisher    = {{Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung/Kickass Books}},
  title        = {{Beware Europe’s New Green Colonialism}},
  url          = {{https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50690/beware-europes-new-green-colonialism}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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