African climate negotiators have quashed a proposal by the African Union to promote gas as a bridge fuel for the continent at UN talks.
The executive council of the African Union had proposed that African nations adopt a common position at the Cop27 climate summit on Africa’s energy development.
…Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, said: “It would be a shameful betrayal of African people, already on the front line of the climate crisis, if African leaders use this November’s Cop27 climate summit on African soil to lock Africa into a fossil fuel based future.”
“What Africa does not need is to be shackled with expensive fossil fuel infrastructure which will be obsolete in a few years as the climate crisis worsens,” he added.
