Beyond Lithium: Latin America’s role in the global green transition

Ibero-America is a region that has much to offer to the world. All the countries in the Ibero-American space have signed both the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. The energy transition in Latin America is also generating valuable experiences and knowledge for international networks of exchange and academic collaboration on this topic. An example of this is ENERGYTRAN, a scientific cooperation project between Europe and Ibero-America for the energy transition, coordinated by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science, and Culture (OEI).

LifeWatch ERIC member of the ENERGYTRAN Consortium, participant in the first Virtual Technology Thematic Event of the project.

On June 26 and 27, 2024, the first virtual event of the Energytran scientific cooperation project took place, an initiative coordinated by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) in collaboration with the European Commission through funding from the Horizon Europe program and involving 11 European and Latin American institutions. The meeting is the first in a series of discussion and debate activities that will take place until the end of 2025 around the need to move towards transformations in the energy systems of our region.

Energytran explores scientific cooperation between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean: key to a fair and sustainable energy transition

On June 26 and 27, 2024, the first virtual event of the Energytran scientific cooperation project took place, an initiative coordinated by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) in collaboration with the European Commission through funding from the Horizon Europe program and involving 11 European and Latin American institutions. The meeting is the first in a series of discussion and debate activities that will take place until the end of 2025 around the need to move towards transformations in the energy systems of our region.

Are Latin America and the EU cooperating in the green transition?

We end the conversation with Emilio Santiago Muiño, PhD in Anthropology and Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), who a few weeks ago participated in a meeting organized by the OEI on the green transition. We asked Emilio how Latin America and the EU are cooperating to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

The energy transition, also essential for the economy

A few weeks ago, the OEI organized a meeting on the green transition, in which Emilio Santiago Muiño, PhD in Anthropology and Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), participated. At Espacio Iberoamericano we spoke with him so he could explain the challenges that Ibero-America faces in this transition.