#energy-sovereignty

#energy-sovereignty

The roots of the crisis lie in a succession of choices made between the 1980s and 2010s, when British governments eschewed concern over control and ownership of our energy supplies. Selling coal to Newcastle went from an idiom meaning a pointless action to a commercial reality as Britain privatised its strategic energy industries, decimated domestic capacity and opened up to the international market.

In few area does Mexicab President Claudia Sheinbaum face more contradictions than in addressing climate change. She is trained as an environmental scientist a path that led her to participate in a Nobel Prize yet champions an energy sovereignty plan that places hydrocarbons at its core. While empowering her Secretary of Environment to position herself as a regional leader, Sheinbaum allocates nine out of every 10 pesos of the budget intended to mitigate climate change