To the extent that the civilizational crisis worsens, the decolonization of the analyses and practices that struggle to make a political turn to overcome the climate emergency becomes necessary.

In this context the global energy crisis and climate emergency create new geographies that are situated within territories dominated by pre-existing (and in many cases, intensifying) colonial and racist practices of extraction and segregation. In the contemporary era, these neo-apartheid politico-financial regimes are exacerbated by increasing energy (and materials) scarcity (e.g. in Europe, due to war in Ukraine) alongside the effects of the climate emergency. Recently, recognition has emerged that hegemonic narratives of energy transition and climate change policies produce climate apartheids that not only criminalise the demographic sectors of humanity that consume minimum energy and have minor responsibility for climate change, but also serve to further harm them. These landscapes of injustice, entrenched by legacies of racial capitalism, produce new politico-financial practices that are increasingly referred to as energy colonialism by climate activists, deploying this lexicon to challenge the colonial corporatization of energy transition. In addition to this, climate change policies are also considered to be producing climate apartheids where subaltern populations suffer the effects of climate emergency while privileged groups are always trying to escape from these problems through racist dispossession and segregation. In this course, we apply a decolonial approach to analyse the new geographies of climate apartheid and energy colonialism, and the conditions of racist dispossession that renew historical colonial injustices. This counter narrative is essential to properly describe the real aims and effects of the climate change policies and the corporate energy transition as well as to imagine alternative visions that will need to be built on the basis of the politics of liberation.