Plaidoyer pour le financement endogène de la transition énergétique en République du Congo

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Which kind of energy transition for the Congo?

Today, environmental and sustainable development issues have taken on a global character, making it urgent to respond not on the scale of a single country or continent, but on a planetary scale to avoid a major ecological crisis affecting the whole planet.

Hence the need for an energy transition. For the Congo, this new global political order is an opportunity to accelerate economic and social development, in particular by creating economic activities that are horizontally and vertically integrated into dynamic local and international value chains, enabling Congolese people to offer higher value-added services that are respectful of the environment.

The energy transition is an invitation to take into consideration the worsening ecological crises. The process of designing a transition plan require answering three fundamental questions as follows:

- why is today's world no longer desirable?

- which kind of world do we want to live in?

- how do we move from the existing world to the desired one?

In practice, energy transition as a concept generates varied, opposing and even irreconcilable transition models. For countries that emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb (the polluting countries), this means building less energy-intensive economies and developing renewable energies.

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