Marula Tsagkari

Dec 8, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Cléa Fache |Hugo Chirol |Léa Legras |Marula Tsagkari

As the world grapples with runaway climate change, growing inequalities, and a resurgent far right, the political establishment feels increasingly outdated. Progressive green-left coalitions must translate generalised discontent and polarisation into grassroots support for a bold climate agenda, providing global political and everyday societal energy solutions. There’s a festering, yet completely normalised, form of dissonance in global (climate) politics.

Sep 15, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Marula Tsagkari |Adam Ostolski |María Dios |Cléa Fache

European societies would not run without energy, which is why the energy transition is such a profound transformation. In the first article of our series on urban politics in the climate emergency, we ask whether local energy democracy can overcome the hurdles facing the green transition. Fossil fuels have kept us hooked to large, impersonal energy systems over which we have little or no control. Could renewables re-politicise and even democratise our relationship with energy?