{"id":5412,"date":"2022-10-04T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/africa-should-use-cop27-to-advance-continents-climate-change-goals-experts"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:08","slug":"africa-should-use-cop27-to-advance-continents-climate-change-goals-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/africa-should-use-cop27-to-advance-continents-climate-change-goals-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa should use COP27 to advance continent\u2019s climate change goals: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/657880dcd408ac495a5cc888\/eb41b37c-493c-40c2-ac31-001441aadcbf\/epxieueitmsx5uzrnk5c_1664876219.jfif?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Climate scientists have stressed that Africa should use the COP 27 conference to advance the continent\u2019s climate change goals.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>A pre-COP 27 African media conference focusing on the issue started in Kigali, Rwanda on Wednesday.<br\/>\u00a0<br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, Power Shift Africa director, said Africa, which is home to about 17% of the world\u2019s population, accounts for around 4% of the global emissions annually.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;What it neglects is that on historical terms, the 17% of the global population that resides in Africa that is domiciled in this part of the world only accounts for 0.5% of the historical emissions.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate scientists have stressed that Africa should use the COP 27 conference to advance the continent\u2019s climate change goals. A pre-COP 27 African media conference focusing on the issue started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":430,"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":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","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=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6898,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/6898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}