Something I’ll miss about living in Malawi - being able to purchase a beautiful painting on the side of the road 🇲🇼 artist Sergio Kasongo (resident of a refugee camp just outside Lilongwe, having fled from DRC in 2016)
The Commission has proposed a Temporary Iran Crisis Energy Framework but it comes with big risks. It allows more generous state aid without meaningful decarbonisation conditions and ignores the unequal fiscal capacity of member states, meaning some countries will be less able to respond or compete.
The European Council meeting tonight and tomorrow will be unbelievably important for several reasons. One of them is that it should determine the EU response to the fossil energy price shock that has been triggered by the situation in the Middle East.
For insurance/customs purposes, we’re having to list and value everything we own. I would recommend the exercise to everyone. I’ve tried to halve our possessions since we moved to Malawi but it’s still quite obscene how much we own and its value. Maybe I need to aim for two-thirds reduction instead?
Instead of moving out of the fossil fuel crisis cycle, we would lock in the very vulnerabilities that have exacerbated this crisis. With my @zoe-institute.bsky.social colleagues @jschneider.bsky.social, Willem Dil & @lukasbe.bsky.social, we propose some suggestions that move us away from this cycle:
1) support could be strictly tied to measurable decarbonisation and efficiency efforts
2) price signals could maintain incentives for transition
3) equal access could be ensured across Member States via EU-level financing
