Meron Tesfamichael

Africa faces numerous intertwined challenges across climate, energy and development. But Africa also has the solutions: justtransitionafrica.org #AfricaJustTransition #AfricaDay2023 @ClimateEnvoyKe @FadhelKaboub @ElizabethSPress @YacobMulugetta @ColinBesaans @MroMikel

UK consumers paid high energy costs while electricity generators saw enormous increases in revenues beyond their costs during the 2022 energy crisis, finds a new report by Dr Serguey Maximov & @MichaelGrubb9 @UCL_ISR @UCL_Energy @TheBartlettUCL ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/may/…

Pair Is Charged With Plotting to ‘Destroy Baltimore’ by Attacking Electrical Grid nytimes.com/2023/02/06/us/…

We're hiring! An exciting opportunity to work with @MroMikel @juliatomei1 @watsonjim2 @st_pye @YacobMulugetta on @ResearchCcg supporting transitions to climate compatible growth. Apply here by 31/08 bit.ly/3PKJSiK

Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: ‘Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet’ nytimes.com/2022/07/24/wor…

Investors Are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price. nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/…

Poor tech, opaque rules, exhausted staff: inside the private company surveilling US immigrants theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

Can we carry out effective conservation in conflict areas? Read our latest Nature, Guns and Money article, written by Adrian Garside: shoc.rusi.org/blog/achieving… #PERAC

Kenya’s mega-railway project leaves society more unequal than before theconversation.com/kenyas-mega-ra… via @TC_Africa

Shsring a great piece by my wonderful colleague Simon Batchelor which explains why @UKMECS has had such a strong focus on the amazing potential of electric cooking. Check it out its a short but interesting read. mecs.org.uk/blog/no-silver… #COP26 #cleancooking #se4all

Many nuggets in this story but this was esp. interesting: Since the pandemic "Americans...are increasingly likely to say mothers should parent young children & stay at home" &, confusingly, to also say that "mothers should make money." vox.com/recode/2260561…

For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap? nytimes.com/2021/05/11/bus…

Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’ theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/…

Domestic Workers in Gulf Countries Vent Woes on TikTok nytimes.com/2021/04/25/wor…

Using Shame, Lending Apps in India Squeeze Billions Out of the Desperate nytimes.com/2021/03/26/bus…

The Ethical, Epistemological, and Conceptual Need to Resume Fieldwork items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-t…

New Year's Resolution No. 1: update the EDG website with all the exciting new projects the team are working on ✅ Have a look at what we're working on at the moment: ucl.ac.uk/energy-develop…

The Train Is Leaving the Station: Digital Currency in Sub-Saharan Africa csis.org/analysis/train…

Public Private Partnerships (#PPPs) are perfect breeding ground for corruption. @TheEconomist explains how it works economist.com/news/americas/…