Both ENDS
A letter written by Both ENDS, co-signed by 350.org, Australia, Urgewald, Germany, Green Alternative, Georgia, and others, with comments to the AIIB's Energy Strategy Issues note. This strategy prioritizes large scale energy infrastructure, which fails to meet the energy needs of local communities.
The AIIB has the opportunity to champion financing green energy systems for future generations by leapfrogging the large energy infrastructure that rely on fossil fuels, plantations for biomass or dams.
While the energy transition via renewable energy, such as solar and wind energy, is fundamental to reduce EU CO2 emissions, we are concerned with the impacts it will have on the (geo-political) economy, people and environment. Our collaboration with civil society organisations in the Global South over the past 30 years has shown us that the patterns of consumption by rich countries, such as the Netherlands and the EU in general, have a devastating impact on people and the environment in mainly Africa, South-America and South-East Asia.
In oktober 2022 publiceerde de Nederlandse regering een beleid ter uitvoering van de COP26-verklaring waarin ze beloofde om de overheidsfinanciering voor fossiele-brandstofprojecten in het buitenland eind 2022 stop te zetten. Helaas zitten er in het voorgestelde beleid nogal wat 'mazen' die het voor de Nederlandse overheid mogelijk maken om nog zeker een jaar grote fossiele projecten in het buitenland te blijven steunen. Deze projecten lopen vaak jaren en zullen nog tientallen jaren een negatieve impact hebben op de landen waar ze plaatsvinden.
