2022 Just Energy Transition Conference Report_ENG
With the slogan “Leaving no one behind”, the CDD Just Energy Transition Conference held in Maputo on July 21, 2022, has tracked the challenges and opportunities on energy access and energy transition in Mozambique. Almost 20 speakers from relevant fields contributes and discussed on the promotion of equality of opportunity and social inclusion in investing in affordable, decentralised mixed-energy systems. They remarked on the dimension of inclusion in the energy transition, the youth/gender perspectives and the role of civil society on the ground. How to accelerate access to energy in Mozambique, intensify the deployment of renewable energy, and achieve economic growth? This was one of the main issues discussed on the panels designed scenarios for a transformational policy, implications of international measures on the domestic economy and opportunity to diversify the economy. READ THE FULL REPORT.
With the slogan “Leaving no one behind”, the CDD Just Energy Transition Conference held in Maputo on July 21, 2022, has tracked the challenges and opportunities on energy access and energy transition in Mozambique. Almost 20 speakers from relevant fields contributes and discussed on the promotion of equality of opportunity and social inclusion in investing in affordable, decentralised mixed-energy systems. They remarked on the dimension of inclusion in the energy transition, the youth/gender perspectives and the role of civil society on the ground. How to accelerate access to energy in Mozambique, intensify the deployment of renewable energy, and achieve economic growth? This was one of the main issues discussed on the panels designed scenarios for a transformational policy, implications of international measures on the domestic economy and opportunity to diversify the economy.
READ THE FULL REPORT.
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MWE: INCLUSION OF WOMEN<br />
expects that by 2030<br />
MWE<br />
will be a shared vision on<br />
there<br />
in Mozambique and<br />
energy<br />
driven by the desire to<br />
Africa,<br />
women to lead the<br />
empower<br />
transition towards SDGs<br />
energy<br />
The movement aims to reach and<br />
defend the interests of the vast<br />
majority of Mozambican women who<br />
live in rural areas, the majority of<br />
whom are without education.<br />
Their strategy to do so is through<br />
the sharing of knowledge and<br />
information to make it accessible to<br />
women working in the energy sector,<br />
especially in the rural areas, said<br />
Taciana Peão Lopes, co-founder of<br />
MWE, stressing that this is a priority.<br />
The main objective is to bring the<br />
challenges of rural women to the<br />
public policy discussion forums and<br />
design solutions applicable to each<br />
context.<br />
Taciana Peão Lopes, Co-Founder of Mozambique Women of <strong>Energy</strong> (MWE)<br />
<br />
Clean cooking solutions in<br />
rural areas<br />
Four out of ve Africans rely on<br />
solid biomass for cooking, which<br />
causes an estimated 600,000 deaths<br />
a year as a result of domestic air<br />
pollution, in addition to the challenge<br />
of deforestation. Lopes warns of an<br />
even greater challenge in the areas<br />
a ected by the violent extremism in<br />
Mozambique, where women are<br />
subject to di erent risks, including<br />
rape and capture. “In this context,<br />
clean cooking solutions would not<br />
only protect the environment, but<br />
above all, free these women from<br />
these risks. MWE is implementing,<br />
with the support of partners, a clean<br />
cooking project with some women<br />
from Cabo Delgado,” she said.<br />
In addition to being an activist for<br />
the inclusion of women in the energy<br />
transition, Lopes is a lawyer<br />
specialising in energy and a founding<br />
partner of the rm Taciana Peão<br />
Lopes & Advogados Associados<br />
(TPLA).<br />
TPLA specialises in the design,<br />
construction,<br />
management,<br />
operation and nancing of energy<br />
projects, having been involved in<br />
many independent power producer<br />
(IPP) projects implemented in<br />
Mozambique, such as Gigawatt,<br />
5 and 7.<br />
CTRG (Sasol), CTE (Vale), Kuvaninga<br />
(Investec), and Ncondezi,and advised<br />
the government on the revision of the<br />
Electricity Law.<br />
MWE expects that by 2030 there will<br />
be a shared vision on energy in<br />
Mozambique and Africa, driven by the<br />
desire to empower women to lead the<br />
energy transition towards SDGs 5 and 7.<br />
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