{"id":5413,"date":"2022-08-17T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/african-climate-diplomats-reject-african-unions-pro-gas-stance-for-cop27"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:27","slug":"african-climate-diplomats-reject-african-unions-pro-gas-stance-for-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/african-climate-diplomats-reject-african-unions-pro-gas-stance-for-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"African climate diplomats reject African Union\u2019s pro-gas stance for COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Energy-africa_1660738412.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>African climate negotiators have quashed a proposal by the African Union to promote gas as a bridge fuel for the continent at UN talks.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>The executive council of the African Union had proposed that African nations adopt a common position at the Cop27 climate summit on Africa\u2019s energy development.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, said: \u201cIt would be a shameful betrayal of African people, already on the front line of the climate crisis, if African leaders use this November\u2019s Cop27 climate summit on African soil to lock Africa into a fossil fuel based future.\u201d<br\/><br\/>\u201cWhat 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5414,"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-5413","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\/5413","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=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6921,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/6921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}