Questioning the transition

The transition to renewable energy is possibly the biggest transformation that mankind has undergone since the second industrial revolution.

At that time, we invented the car, the telephone, the radio, the aeroplane... Our way of moving and communicating changed forever.

The challenge we face now is perhaps even greater. We have to convert all the world's industries, how we travel, how we heat our homes, how we construct our buildings... and we have a deadline!

Such a transformation generates brutal debates on issues that are incredibly technical but will have a defining impact on the global climate.

It’s easy to find positions online about the most technical paragraph being discussed in EU legislation.

But in these debates, sometimes what is really needed is to ask good questions.

In Europe, the epicentre of these technical debates on the ecological transition is in Brussels - the capital of boring talk by excellence.

In the years that I have spent in Brussels as a journalist and communicator on energy issues, I have seen how entrenched positions often are.

Nobody can be an expert on everything. So we often rely on people we trust to form our ideas about the latest story.

In this newsletter, I want us to question everything. To ask ourselves again, like a small child (or a newly arrived trainee), what we can do to accelerate the transition to clean energy as soon as possible.

That is why the titles of each issue will not be statements - they will be questions.