{"id":5483,"date":"2022-06-06T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/climate-africas-energy-future-on-a-knifes-edge"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:50","slug":"climate-africas-energy-future-on-a-knifes-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/climate-africas-energy-future-on-a-knifes-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate: Africa&#8217;s energy future on a knife&#8217;s edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/92234888-5eba-024b-881b-9ba3492fbbc6_1655106546.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>With more than half its population lacking mains electricity and still using charcoal and other damaging sources for cooking, Africa&#8217;s energy future \u2013- torn between fossil fuels and renewables\u2014is up for grabs.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>As nations discuss the climate crisis at the UN&#8217;s mid-year negotiations in Bonn, AFP spoke to Mohamed Adow, founder of think tank Power Shift Africa, about the forces pulling the continent in opposing directions.<br\/><br\/>The stakes, he warns, are global.<br\/><br\/>Q. You have said rich nations owe the rest of the world a climate debt<br\/>&#8220;The prosperity they enjoy was, in effect, subsidised by the rest of the world because they polluted without paying the cost for doing so.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than half its population lacking mains electricity and still using charcoal and other damaging sources for cooking, Africa&#8217;s energy future \u2013- torn between fossil fuels and renewables\u2014is up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5484,"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-5483","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\/5483","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=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6948,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/6948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}