Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

Der er behov for en bedre balance i investeringer i elektricitet i Afrika | Globalnyt Ole Winckler Andersen er senioranalytiker og Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen er seniorforsker – begge ved Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier. Vi hører ofte ...

Jeg har et indlæg i Globalnyt med min gode kollega, Ole Winckler globalnyt.dk/der-er-behov...

Desperate Searches and Arrests Continue to Define Tanzania’s Post-Election Crackdown - The Chanzo As loved ones vanish and online dissent is silenced, a chilling climate of fear takes hold across Tanzania.

Desperate Searches and Arrests Continue to Define Tanzania’s Post-Election Crackdown thechanzo.com/2025/12/30/a...

Retired Prime Minister Joseph Sinde Warioba - more Tanzanians were killed in the election troubles than in the Kagera war….

Firms or Families? Another installment in the Mission 300 electrification debate On the politics and logics of policy tradeoffs

www.africanistperspective.com/p/firms-or-f...

The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...

My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳

It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months

Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects

- BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon #hydrogen plants in recent months

HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/b098...

EIFO provides EUR 100 million loan for strategic lithium production in Germany The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) has participated in the financing of Vulcan Energy’s Phase One Lionheart Project, signing an export loan of EUR 100 million.

Denmark's EIFO provides EUR 100 million loan for strategic lithium production in Germany www.eifo.dk/en/knowledge...

Uneven development and the geographies of energy transition in Mozambique In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic…

Pleased to share our new article, which examines Mozambique's energy transition as multiple, socially/ spatially uneven, and contested -thanks to @marcusjpower.bsky.social for leading this, and Lorraine Howe and Carlos Shenga for your many insights www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for Conference Papers: International Conference on the Political Economy of Energy Transitions and Inequality in Africa. Join us at this conference, which will take place 30-31 March 2026, University of Ghana, Accra. Please see the full Call via: www.ug.edu.gh/announcement...

What Went Wrong in Tanzania? How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos—and where it goes from here.

What Went Wrong in Tanzania?
How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos - and where it goes from here.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/06/t...

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

Tanzania has its Tiananmen moment A post-election crackdown that killed hundreds has changed the country forever

www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Papilio arcturus Westwood, 1842 - Blue Peacock.

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍

What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world?
A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟

Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit - Carbon Brief In order to track parties’ positions on negotiating points at COP30, Carbon Brief has analysed nearly 100 submissions to the UN and captured them in a table

NEW – Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

Read here ⬇️

Hundreds reportedly killed in post-polls violence Unified Tanzania has never experienced unrest on this scale before.

The election on Wednesday was supposed to cement President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s legitimacy as president of the United Republic. According to the story told by the country’s electoral authority, and state-run media outlets, it did exactly that. The story on Tanzania’s streets is very different.

Huge, unprecedented protests in Tanzania yesterday. I've found literally one post on bluesky. This is why some of us can't fully shut our twitter accounts, much as we might wish to.

The global boom in solar — with or without the US Despite the scepticism about renewables in Washington, falling prices for new panels are making a compelling business case around the world

"The world remains in an energy addition mode, rather than a clear transition." Quite a comprehensive summary of the solar revolution from the FT.

Tightening repression guarantees Samia Suluhu Hassan’s victory, but has strained her own party. Will she and her party come out stronger?

Kenya vs Ethiopia: Who will blink first in nuclear power race? - The Africa Report.com Addis is clearly in front post-GERD Dam … but Nairobi is trying to catch up with new nuclear deals.

The race for nuclear power in Africa continues: www.theafricareport.com/393986/kenya...

Eni approves $7.2 billion Coral Norte LNG project offshore Mozambique Eni has approved the $7.2 billion Coral Norte floating LNG project offshore Mozambique, which will add 3.6 million tons per year of LNG capacity and double the country’s production. Set to start in 20...

worldoil.com/news/2025/10...

Well yes. It looks like it's serious this time

China Pledges $1.4B to Upgrade Zambia-Tanzania Rail Amid Global Minerals Race • 30-year concession includes new locomotives, wagons, and freight upgrades • Deal strengthens mineral export routes as US, EU push Lobito Corridor China signed a $1.4 billion agreement with Zambia an...

'China signed a $1.4 billion agreement with Zambia and Tanzania on Monday to upgrade the TAZARA railway' www.ecofinagency.com/news-infrast...

Yes, what a graph but there may be a downside to it toddmoss.substack.com/p/africa-nee...

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Donald Trump pushes World Bank to finance more fossil fuel development The US is applying pressure to lenders to drop restrictions on projects contributing to climate change

www.ft.com/content/24c6...

A faltering process: Unpredictable funding undermines the development of ambitious African climate plans | Development Today Within a few months, the COP30 climate summit will take place in the city of Belém in Brazil. One of the main issues on the agenda in November will be the plans...

Read our comment on the NDCs in Africa prior to the COP in Brazil: 'A faltering process: Unpredictable funding undermines the development of ambitious African climate plans'
www.development-today.com/archive/2025...

Electrifying African firms for growth and development On the urgent need to rethink the core goals of Mission 300

Mission 300, championed by the World Bank & the AfDB, among others, needs a new mission.

Electrifying African firms for growth and development:

open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...

As #Ethiopia finally gets ready to inaugurate the #GERD, read about the history of Ethiopian dam building and the story of the GERD in this open access book (download link below) or a shorter thread below.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

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