Africa Energy Conversations: The need for a Just Energy Transition with Carlos Pimenta Hanns Seidel Foundation Kenya & Ethiopia Podcast

The global pressure to adopt a renewable-only stance is inevitably creating more pressure

on Development Finance Institutions, Multilateral Development Banks and Bilateral

Development Agencies to consider this position. While some African countries have the

renewable energy resources to support such a transition, many do not and will still have to

rely on fossil fuel sources in the interim.

In this session we explore the implications of such a change on Africa’s ability to achieve

its development objectives and learn from Carlos Pimenta’s energy and climate journey,

from being Portugal’s youngest Secretary of State for the Environment, to leading EU

negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol, becoming the Chairman of a Renewable Energy

Investment Fund.