solo

I am a bit confused. On one hand it says:

No watering down of decarbonisation targets

And on the other hand:

(...) provide greater assistance for heavy industry to cope with energy costs, rather than easing decarbonisation targets

Can't wait for the Mexico episode!

I am a bit surprised that they "only" have water shortages. I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future the water supplies will be proven to be contaminated.

“Privatizing passenger rail between Canada’s biggest cities puts the profits of the Liberals’ corporate friends ahead of affordable transportation for Canadians,” he said. “While the private model has been shown to drive up costs and cause project delays, we want to see high-speed rail built publicly, for the public good.”

I think this part is very true.

A draft text of the European Commission’s Clean Industrial Deal sets out plans to strengthen the markets for sustainable products and provide greater assistance for heavy industry to cope with energy costs, rather than easing decarbonisation targets.

Prioritising energy cost, instead of decarbonisation sounds alarming to me.

I would also like to add that many of the big polluters use their involvement to renewable projects as a marketing/advertisement strategy, in order to portray themselves as if they were part of the solution (energy transition), when in reality they are doing business as usual.

I asked you to read the article to make obvious why some charts for Europe are actually kinda rigged. (Edit: Energy consumption from fossil fuel may look "good" for europe, but at what cost for other places) And btw, it was not by mistake that I used the global chart. So from the article:

both Egypt and Morocco also remain net importers of fossil fuel energy, buying in large quantities of oil and gas to fuel their own economies, while selling their cleaner energy to Europe,

I thought I would be clear why it is so bad to do these projects where water is scarce. From the article

Greenpeace’s report argues that European-backed renewable and lower-carbon projects producing energy for export are hampering the two countries’ ability to decarbonise their own economies, displacing local populations and consuming millions of litres of fresh water, in some cases in environments where it was already scarce.

In relation to your question but why?, for me the answer is the rest of the article and from the summary you mentioned in the following sections which I will not copy-paste:

• Extractivism and Neocolonialism in the Global South

• Morocco and Egypt: From extractivism to green colonialism

I'm sorry, I don't know what else to say.

Ok. Well, I suppose if you read this summary and still wonder, I don't think I can say something in a few sentences to make its content more clear.

Take a look at the article!

What do you understand by capitalism?

Briefly, an economic system that is based on private entities controlling the production. Infinite growth is part of it. The role of government differs depending from one school of thought to an other but the tendencies are from minimal to none interventions of the government. Of course I could go on, but I thought of keeping it short.

China -a self-defined socialist country-

Well, to my knowledge, for several decades now they have been calling it, Socialist Market Economy and the rest of the world knows it's just a market economy.

Btw what is socialism to you?

Just keep in mind that renewable energy is not really implemented for sustainability, but mainly for profit. Also, due to capitalism the energy consumption keeps increasing. Take a look at this chart. Oil energy consumption keeps increasing, coal has not plateaued yet - none of them is decreasing for sure. So far, there is no renewable energy transition because renewable energy is just being added, it does not replace energy coming from extractive industries.

It is equally important to keep our eyes open to how renewable projects are legislated and executed, and in the same time continue to evolve them. This evolution should take into consideration things like habitat disruptions (earth, sea, air), mining, wastes produced, to name just a few.

I dunno, perhaps read again the example I mentioned?