{"id":5431,"date":"2022-11-23T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/africas-dash-for-gas-heats-up-cop27"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:41","slug":"africas-dash-for-gas-heats-up-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/africas-dash-for-gas-heats-up-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s dash for gas heats up COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot2022-11-22130333_1669203910.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Africa&#8217;s natural resources are at the heart of a heated debate about how to balance economic growth and tackle global warming.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230; This is why campaigners like Mohamed Adow from Power Shift Africa do not want to see new gas fields opened up in Africa. He blames a &#8220;powerful cabal of fossil fuel companies&#8221; along with &#8220;African elites&#8221; for the push to exploit gas.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;This would clearly be a disaster for the planet, but also for Africans, who make up some of the most acutely impacted victims of climate change.&#8221;<br\/><br\/>Negotiators for some African governments say they are very much aware of the needs of their people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#8217;s natural resources are at the heart of a heated debate about how to balance economic growth and tackle global warming. &#8230; This is why campaigners like Mohamed Adow from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5432,"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-5431","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\/5431","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=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}