{"id":5394,"date":"2022-11-01T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/africa-energy-week-experts-call-out-new-plan-to-sneak-fossil-fuels-into-cop27-agenda"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:57","slug":"africa-energy-week-experts-call-out-new-plan-to-sneak-fossil-fuels-into-cop27-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/africa-energy-week-experts-call-out-new-plan-to-sneak-fossil-fuels-into-cop27-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Energy Week: Experts call out new plan to sneak fossil fuels into COP27 agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/coal-power-station_1861404b-300x188_1667296629.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As the fossil fuel industry meets this week in Cape Town, South Africa, on the occasion of the Africa Energy Week, the plan is a\u00a0new push to scale up fossil fuels.<br\/><\/strong><br\/>This is for \u201cgeopolitical leverage\u201d, to initiate a \u201cnew era\u201d of fossil fuel discoveries, expand into Africa\u2019s \u201cleast explored frontiers\u201d, increase their profits through \u201cenhanced oil recovery techniques\u201d (i.e., fracking), redraw Africa\u2019s oil and energy map through new pipelines, and to change laws and regulations to achieve these goals.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, the Campaigns Lead for Power Shift Africa, stated: \u201cCollusion by European and African energy elites to continue colonizing the continent with dirty energy infrastructure, will saddle Africa with dangerous projects that it doesn\u2019t need, entrench the energy apartheid facing millions of Africans, and risk tipping Africa and the world into catastrophic climate disruption.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the fossil fuel industry meets this week in Cape Town, South Africa, on the occasion of the Africa Energy Week, the plan is a\u00a0new push to scale up fossil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6886,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/6886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}