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Leonardo Stanley

Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society - CEDES (Buenos Aires). Author of "Latin America Global Insertion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development", Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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China’s role in Latin America’s energy transition

The global insertion model pursued by Latin America is in crisis because the world is facing an unprecedented climate emergency.

Argentina’s Blindness to Climate Change

The Argentine government's neo-developmentalist eagerness to move forward with offshore exploration not only ignores the harmful effects of this activity but also forgets its financial risks.

Latin America sidesteps energy transition

Many countries in the region continue to grant huge benefits to the oil industry.

Latin America: from crisis to polycrisis

If economic history has been marked by the irruption of natural catastrophes and economic risks, the distinctive feature of the Anthropocene is human's responsibility for the amplification of these risks.

Climate change and sustainable development: narrative and altruism

In climate subjects, despite the fact that scientific knowledge is resounding, some insist on alternative narratives.

How about taxing oil company profits to finance energy transition?

The energy transition requires financing and there are different instruments that could be used to self-finance it. One of them is windfall profits taxes.

Let’s leave oil in the ground, let’s transform institutions instead

The arrival of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez to government in Colombia has come as a shock to many, including leftist governments, that think of development based on extractivism.

The impact of climate change on global inflation

If the inflation unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic was considered transitory, the inflationary pressure that is now being detected is evidence of a structural nature. The world economy is entering a new stage, one of higher inflation.

The ephemerality of a promise: green financing

Co-author Francisco E. Castañeda Latin America's "green hope" was associated with the arrival of capital flows. Several leaders returned from Glasgow convinced of the power of the market to accelerate the energy transition. However, this optimism has been diluted in the face of new global constraints.

When tragedy covers the urgent

A few days after the IPCC report was issued, once again announcing the extreme situation in which the planet finds itself, Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. A conflict largely marked by the geopolitics of oil and which will mean a reversal of progress in the short term.