Energy Partnerships on Equal Footing?

According to Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, the energy crisis in the country is “over”. In recent years, the coalition government has campaigned in favour of numerous “energy partnerships” with other countries, and officials on all sides have repeatedly proclaimed the supposed “win-win” nature of those partnerships.

This event will take a critical look at some of the projects organized between Germany and Europe on the one hand, and Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa on the other. To what extent do the so-called “partnerships” threaten to reproduce existing structures of exploitation and inequality? Who benefits from energy extraction and production? And alternatively, what would partnerships have to look like to actually become the much-vaunted opportunity for the countries being discussed?

We look forward to discussing these and other questions with:

• Roland Ngam, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southern Africa
• Ibrahima Thiam, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Western Africa
• Nina Treu, Die Linke

Moderator: Neelke Wagner, PowerShift

The discussion will be simultaneously interpreted from English into German.

An event organized by urgewald, PowerShift, Deutsche Umwelthilfe and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.