{"id":5452,"date":"2022-08-23T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/backgrounder-russias-war-triggers-fossil-energy-crisis-for-germany-eu"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:24","slug":"backgrounder-russias-war-triggers-fossil-energy-crisis-for-germany-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/backgrounder-russias-war-triggers-fossil-energy-crisis-for-germany-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Backgrounder: Russia\u2019s war triggers fossil energy crisis for Germany, EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Nord-Stream_Pjotr-MahhoninWikimedia-Commons-e1519188247152_1661239229.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is visiting Canada this week while his country faces a level of energy supply risk that many Canadians would have trouble imagining.<\/strong><br\/><br\/>For years, Germany allowed itself to become heavily dependent on oil and gas imported from Russia, a mistake that has left the European Union\u2019s biggest economy deeply vulnerable after Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Europe has also been hearing pushback on its scramble to line up LNG supplies from Africa, with Mohamed Adow, director of Nairobi-based Power Shift Africa, scorching Germany and Italy for trying to \u201csaddle\u201d the continent\u2019s developing countries with new fossil fuel infrastructure that will drag down their economies.<br\/><br\/>\u201cWe must respond with a firm no, and instead demand that European countries support us in the development of renewable energy systems,\u201d he\u00a0declared\u00a0last month.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is visiting Canada this week while his country faces a level of energy supply risk that many Canadians would have trouble imagining. For years, Germany allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5453,"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-5452","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\/5452","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=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}