Several climate change and energy conferences that this country has held in the past two years or so have largely settled on the need to move away from biomass as a source of energy. But champions of such initiatives are worried that government does not seem willing to immediately put in place proper transition measures from the dominant energy sources to more sustainable ones. As more and more people continue to rely on unsustainable energy sources like charcoal, local environment, natural resources and climate change management specialist, Julius Ng’oma, wonders why Malawi is not capitalising on renewable energy initiatives to fund sustainable transitions. He believes it is possible to arrest the energy crisis that this country is ecperiencing by exploring alternatives that do not pose hazards to the environment. Ng’oma looks at the African Renewable Energy Initiative (Arei) as a rare enterprise for energy-constrained countries like Malawi to tap from.
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