{"id":5423,"date":"2022-06-02T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/african-nations-dash-for-gas-exposes-division-at-the-un-and-hypocrisy-in-europe"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:50","slug":"african-nations-dash-for-gas-exposes-division-at-the-un-and-hypocrisy-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/african-nations-dash-for-gas-exposes-division-at-the-un-and-hypocrisy-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"African nations\u2019 dash for gas exposes division at the UN and \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/b029adc9-7ac5-41e5-faa9-fbb7352882b5_1654162344.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>African leaders\u2019 dash for gas is raising tensions at the top of the UN and exposing Europe\u2019s conflicted approach to the fuel.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>Across Africa, gas is at the heart of a development versus decarbonisation challenge.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cThese European nations know that fossil fuels like gas are not the future and once they have their renewables up to speed, they will drop these new gas agreements,\u201d Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, told Climate Home.<br\/><br\/>\u201cFor Africa, it would be idiotic to invest our little resources to expand gas production just to help Europe in the short term when we could be investing in our own sustainable renewable energy,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African leaders\u2019 dash for gas is raising tensions at the top of the UN and exposing Europe\u2019s conflicted approach to the fuel. Across Africa, gas is at the heart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5424,"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-5423","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\/5423","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=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6949,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions\/6949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}