{"id":5493,"date":"2022-11-23T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/coal-still-enemy-number-one-at-cop27-climate-summit-for-now"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:40","slug":"coal-still-enemy-number-one-at-cop27-climate-summit-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/coal-still-enemy-number-one-at-cop27-climate-summit-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal still enemy number one at COP27 climate summit \u2014 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot2022-11-23144200_1669203750.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The debate about whether countries need to focus on phasing down and reducing emissions from all fossil fuels as opposed to the focus on coal is sure to be a tense point of negotiation as COP27 nears its end.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230; Dean Bhebhe of Power Shift Africa said at a side event: \u201cThe next few days at COP27 are important to build a common narrative that will secure Africa\u2019s energy future. The science and economics are clear: not only will fossil fuel expansion lead to certain doom, climate aside, it\u2019s not even the best development option available to Africa. There is a cleaner, greener, renewable future that is possible, and we cannot deny Africa its right to that better future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate about whether countries need to focus on phasing down and reducing emissions from all fossil fuels as opposed to the focus on coal is sure to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5494,"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-5493","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\/5493","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=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}