Green energy for all: Zimbabwe will need a new social contract to roll out projects like solar power
The Zimbabwean government is racing against time to meet the United Nationsâ Sustainable Development Goal 7: affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. However, the race towards green energy is top-down and mostly privatised. New technology is being introduced or sold to individuals or small families, but renewable energy is not being made part of a decent life for the entire community. Sustainable transitions researchers Ellen Fungisai Chipango and Long Seng To have researched ways to use the communal ethic of African ubuntu, expressed as âa person is a person through other personsâ, in the rollout of renewable energy.