Stop financing dirty fossil fuel; invest in renewable energy instead: Speakers at virtual energy dialogue
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Speakers at a virtual dialogue today urged foreign investors to stop financing in dirty coal- and LNG- fired power plants and invest in renewable energy instead.
The virtual dialogue, titled Energy Investment in Bangladesh was co-organised by 16 campaign groups, non-profit organisations and climate movement platforms from Bangladesh and across the globe.
The dialogue was inaugurated by renowned Bangladeshi energy campaigner and Professor of Economics at Jahangirnagar University, Anu Muhammad. In his inauguration speech, Anu Muhammad said Bangladesh is going towards a blind path of dirty energy whereas it had all the opportunities to start afresh with renewable energy.
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Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine
(It is in the shelter of each other that the people live)
– Irish proverb
As 2020 lurches towards a close, many of us in the UK will feel little cause for celebration. This was, after all, a year in which our government facilitated the early deaths of over 60,000 people from Covid-19. A year in which underwhelming climate policies were painted thick with
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But 2020 also saw fierce resistance around the world, most recently in the Indian farmers’ protests. We can look to various parts of the world for inspiration, not only for how to fight, but how to win.