Guy Edwards

elespectador.comMás hidrocarburos no son la solución para ColombiaCon la propuesta de ampliar la exploración de hidrocarburos, esta columna cuestiona el impacto que podría tener en la seguridad energética.

9 Aug

Feliz de compartir nuestra columna en @elespectador.com. Escribimos que profundizar la dependencia de los hidrocarburos no es la solución para Colombia. Por el contrario, se necesita impulsar las renovables, promover la eficiencia y diversificar la economía. www.elespectador.com/ambiente/opi...

npr.orgThe Iran war has pushed some countries away from oil and toward clean energyThe new round of bombing in the Middle East has underscored the precarity of relying on fossil fuels. The war is speeding up the global transition to EVs, solar, and batteries, experts say.

The Iran war has pushed some countries away from oil and toward clean energy writes @juliaradio.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/07/09/n...

Colombia's next Minister of Foreign Affairs, Omar Bula Escobar, appears to deny the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. The Santos, Duque & Petro govts worked actively to support global climate action not least given Colombia is highly vulnerable to climate impacts.

x.comOmar Bula Escobar (@omarbula) on XOFICINA DE PROBLEMAS IMAGINARIOS --------------- DIVISIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO 🌦️🌦️🌦️ 😄

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x.comOmar Bula Escobar (@omarbula) on XEl alarmismo sobre el #CambioClimático es una mentira a la que hay que poner fin @GatestoneInst Climate Change Alarmism Is a Lie that Must Stop https://t.co/fRPWq23JCq

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elpais.comGas, ‘fracking’ y transición energética de De la Espriella en tiempos de crisis climáticaEl presidente electo recibirá un país en medio del fenómeno de El Niño y con un déficit del combustible fósil. Pero no basta con explorar y explotar más, sobre todo en un mundo que quiere ir camino a ...

Muchas gracias a @mariamonic91.bsky.social por el espacio para ofrecer un par de comentarios sobre los temas de gas, fracking y transición energética de ADLE en tiempos de crisis climática 🧵 elpais.com/america-colo...

...se podría reducir su demanda en una cifra equivalente a 1,5 veces el déficit proyectado para 2030 /10

ember-energy.orgUna transición energética efectiva en Colombia - Estrategias para reducir la dependencia del gas | EmberColombia perdió su autosuficiencia en el suministro de gas. Aun bajo la trayectoria de la oferta más probable de producción nacional y la capacidad de importación instalada, la oferta no alcanzaría a ...

Además, los mismos expertos de @ember-energy.org y Transforma dicen que “el fracking, desde una perspectiva económica, ambiental y social, no representa una solución viable para el inminente déficit de gas en Colombia.” / FIN ember-energy.org/es/analisis/...

Además, se debe descartar el fracking, ya que la prioridad es mejorar la eficiencia en el uso del gas y aprovechar las energías renovables para reducir esa dependencia /8

Como señala un 📗 de Transforma y Ember, al sustituir el 30% de los calentadores y el 10% de las estufas de gas por equipos eléctricos en el sector residencial, y al disminuir un 14% el uso de gas en los procesos industriales invirtiendo en eficiencia energética.../9

Y sobre el interés del equipo de ADLE en impulsar los dos proyectos de piloto de fracking en Puerto Wilches, Santander, me llama la atención que Cepeda ganó en este municipio con una campaña nacional abiertamente en contra del fracking /6

Le decía que el nuevo gobierno tendrá la oportunidad de construir una hoja de ruta junto a las comunidades afectadas por los combustibles fósiles para seguir construyendo una transición energética justa /7

Me genera incertidumbre que la mayor asociación internacional de ADLE sea con el gobierno de Trump, el cual poco puede ofrecer en materia de transición energética dado su fuerte oposición a las energías renovables y a la acción climática /4

Además, me pregunto si el líder del equipo de empalme del sector minero-energético, José Miguel Saab de Independence Drilling, hablará de una transición energética justa de manera transversal o solo la verá con los ojos del negocio del gas y el petróleo /5

Le comenté que fueron varias las políticas públicas que sacó adelante el gobierno de Petro (Colombia Solar, Comunidades Energéticas etc) para impulsar la transición energética, a pesar de los varios retos en su implementación. /2

Que Colombia lideró la primera conferencia sobre la transición justa hacia la eliminación de los combustibles fósiles representa un tipo de liderazgo diplomático que aumenta la posibilidad de atraer recursos y cooperación técnica. /3

caracol.com.coMinAmbiente designado descarta acabar con la ANLA, pero pide que no se use para frenar proyectosNo obstante, Fabio Arjona, designado ministro de Ambiente del Gobierno de Abelardo de la Espriella revisará la contratación en el Ministerio de Ambiente y sus fondos adscritos.

Quite an extraordinary interview by Colombia's incoming Minister of Envir., Fabio Arjona. He said the 3 enemies of sustainability are poverty, ignorance & environmental hysteria. Asked if they'd participate in the Santa Marta process to transition away from FFs...🧵 caracol.com.co/2026/07/03/m...

Worth recalling that the SM conf was a major success: - 57 countries discussed how to move away from fossil fuels. - On the sidelines, 400 scholars participated in an academic dialogue while NGOs, indigenous ppls, communities & trade unions held meetings & a People’s Assembly /3

transitionawayconference.comReport — First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil FuelsColombia and the Netherlands will host the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The Conference is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders...

- Brazil's COP30 presidency supported the SM conference and it outcomes. - The conference is complementary to the UNFCCC COPs and was never intended to be a formal negotiation. Further details are in the official SM conference report: transitionawayconference.com/report /END

...he dodged the question and said the Santa Marta conference was "an absolute waste of money and time", achieved nothing, was not legally connected to the UN and was an "international jamboree centered on anti-fossil fuel activism." /2

21 June

One of Colombia's main newspapers, @eltiempo.com.web.brid.gy, reports that according to the preliminary count, Abelardo de la Espriella has won the second round of the presidential elections. ADLE appears to have won by around 246,000 votes. In 2022, Petro beat Hernández by over 600,000 votes.

For a PhD student @sussex.ac.uk exploring Colombia's energy transition, it was a great privilege to attend the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, witness history being made and talk to many of the Colombians working tirelessly to make that transition a reality 🧵

Yet what happened in Santa Marta is still historic not least as fossil fuel dependency is being shown by the Iran conflict to be a massive liability and source of global destabilisation /6

As my supervisor, @peternewell.bsky.social, wrote in Power Shift, distinct actors must capitalise on these openings when incumbents are disorientated and facing legitimacy crisis, to push for demands and reforms. Santa Marta was one such moment and urgently needs to be built upon / END

We then had excellent interventions from Juliana Peña Niño, Wilmar Suarez and Stephan Sampaio, who are working to advance a just energy transition and confront those trying to keep us shackled to fossil fuels. Thanks to our moderators, María Mónica Monsalve Sánchez & Camilo Andrés Garzón Martínez /4

The Santa Marta conference was no silver bullet and as the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, keeps reminding us every key climate indicator is flashing red and we urgently need to transform our economies /5

As I commented to a RTVC journalist, the govts of Colombia and the Netherlands, as well as many activists, deserve enormous credit for making this conference a success and finally putting fossil fuel phase out front and centre after decades of obstruction and delay at the UN climate talks /2

With fellow scholars at the @cssn.org, Janaina Pinto and Elisabeth Möhle, we had the pleasure of running a side event at the University of Magdelena where we presented some of our research on climate obstruction in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia published in the journal Climate and Development /3

Climate Social Science Network

8 May

🎉Happy 100th Birthday to the inimitable David Attenborough. who I had the good fortune to briefly meet in 2015!! Sir David has spent a lifetime teaching us about the beauty, fragility and importance of nature, and how we are connected to it. Today we need to listen to him more than ever.

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@cssn.org

22 Apr

An exciting event to look out for this weekend at the energy transition conference in Colombia. The event will feature experts on climate obstruction, and will offer strategies for a just energy transition. See the link for more information and how to attend!

Guy Edwards@guywhedwards.bsky.social

Únete a nuestro diálogo en la Universidad del Magdalena organizado por @cssn.org y el OIMC sobre los actores en Argentina, Brasil y Colombia que obstaculizan la transición energética y conversa con expertos que están trabajando para enfrentarlos. #MásAlláDeLosCombustiblesFósiles 🧵

22 Apr

22 Apr

Ponentes confirmados: - Juliana Peña Niño, NRGI - Wilmar Suarez, Ember - Thais Lazzeri, FALA - Camilo Andrés Garzón, La Silla Vacia - María Mónica Monsalve, El País - Elisabeth Möhle, UNSAM - Janaina Pinto, UERJ - Guy Edwards, Sussex Uni Inscripción: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

elpais.comStiglitz, Piketty y más de 200 académicos piden a Petro retirar a Colombia del arbitraje de inversiónExpertos de más de 24 países instan al presidente colombiano a liderar una coalición internacional contra este sistema de resolución de disputas

23 Mar

Stiglitz, Piketty y más de 200 académicos piden a Petro retirar a Colombia del arbitraje de inversión elpais.com/america-colo...

3 Mar

This Thursday 5th March at 9:00 am (🇨🇴), the governments of Colombia and The Netherlands will host an event on the Colombian environment ministry's social media channels to share details about the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels taking place this April in Santa Marta.

transitionawayconference.comFirst Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil FuelsColombia and the Netherlands will host the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The Conference is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders...

10 Feb

Exciting to see the website for the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, to be co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands this April, is now live.

Harro van Asselt@harrovanasselt.bsky.social

The website of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels is now live. Three broad themes, with plenty of scope for good discussions: - Overcoming economic dependence - Transforming supply & demand - Advancing intl cooperation & multilateralism transitionawayconference.com

backchannel1.substack.comWill Petro stand up to Trump on climate?Petro can confront Trump on climate change and risk confrontation or focus on a gas deal among other areas, that improves relations with Washington.

2 Feb

As Petro prepares to meet Trump on Feb 3, I argue in this new commentary for Backchannel that despite their various disagreements – and the potential for diplomatic fireworks – there is one unlikely area where a deal could emerge: Venezuela’s gas. backchannel1.substack.com/p/will-petro...

realinstitutoelcano.orgThe IV EU-CELAC summit’s outcomes on climate action can be built upon in 2026Considering the volatile geopolitical situation, the IV EU-CELAC summit in Santa Marta was a successful summit.

12 Jan

Amid worsening geopolitics, the EU-CELAC summit showed that climate action remains a strategic priority for both regions. In this @rielcano.bsky.social commentary, I show how they can enhance cooperation by developing fossil fuel transition roadmaps & confronting misinformation & disinformation.

Happy to share my first solo-authored peer reviewed article published in @climdevjournal.bsky.social! It examines some of the main discourses of climate delay in Colombia’s energy transition debate in the national media. Here's a quick 🧵 with the open access link and key findings.

The article will be part of a special issue on climate obstruction in the Global South edited by Carlos R.S. Milani and Ruth E. McKie. I am very grateful to various colleagues, particularly my supervisor, @peternewell.bsky.social, for their helpful comments and the @cssn.org for funding this work /6

tandfonline.comExploring discourses of climate delay in energy transition debates in national mediaDespite being broadly aligned with calls to phase out fossil fuels, the pledge made by the government of President Gustavo Petro in Colombia to end the granting of new hydrocarbon contracts has fac...

Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The study argues that Colombia’s media represents an important site of climate obstruction and shows how some publications are not neutral actors in the energy transition debate but rather enable, amplify and circulate these delay discourses /4

It also argues that those actors opposing the contract pledge sought to politicize discussions rather than engage with some of the technical rationales for the pledge, which was part of a discursive strategy to characterise the pledge as disastrous for Colombia /5

The article finds that discourses of climate delay are widely used in five national publications by various actors who opposed the pledge by the Petro government to suspend the granting of new hydrocarbon contracts /2

It shows how opponents of the pledge combined discourses of climate delay with issues including energy security and economic stability, with various media outlets failing to challenge or contextualise these claims /3

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UNU-WIDER

@unu-wider.bsky.social

12 Dec 2025

Don't miss this research opportunity! 📝 How can carbon pricing & fossil fuel subsidy reforms drive sustainability while promoting equity? Submit your proposals on green fiscal policies, climate change & just energy transition in the Global South by Dec 20, 2025! More info: go.unu.edu/70BRN

5 Dec 2025

Important new report by @ember-energy.org and Transforma on Colombia's fossil gas supply challenges shows that eletrification and efficiency are the way forward to mitigate future growth in total demand. Fracking and locking the country further into fossil fuel dependence is not.

Ember@ember-energy.org

NEW | 🇨🇴 Colombia faces a growing gas supply gap – but it can reduce its dependence on imported gas by 2030 with electrification and efficiency. A new report from Ember + Transforma shows how. 🧵 1/4

npr.orgThis oil producer announced it would move away from oil. Here's what happened nextTwo years ago Colombia pledged to stop exploring for new oil, gas and coal. On the world stage, this was a big deal. Here's what's happened since.

3 Dec 2025

At COP30, Colombia pushed for text on the transition away from fossil fuels. But what's happening with its domestic energy transition? I discussed this w/ @juliaradio.bsky.social for an NPR article, which takes a sober look at the situation instead of repeating various dodgy claims made elsewhere.

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Oil Change International

@oilchange.org

1 Dec 2025

HUGE WIN: UK Government pulls $1.15bn in support for the controversial Mozambique LNG project - putting pressure on the Dutch Govt to pull out too. @financialtimes.com story: www.ft.com/content/b2ea...

ft.comUK to withdraw financing for Total’s Mozambique LNG projectEnergy chief has warned he is ready to ‘exercise all my contractual rights’ if governments do not stand by contracts

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Megan Darby

@climatemegan.bsky.social

28 Nov 2025

🤥The #COP30 presidency said ~80 countries opposed a fossil fuel roadmap but that included 42 members of the Least Developed Countries bloc which denies taking that position. 14 countries were listed as both for and against! 🔥 investigation by @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...

carbonbrief.orgRevealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents - Carbon BriefCarbon Brief has obtained a leaked copy of the “informal list” of countries that were characterised as “blocking” the fossil-fuel roadmap’sat COP30.