{"id":5578,"date":"2022-09-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/exclusive-african-civil-society-speaks-out-against-continents-400bn-gas-trap"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:21","slug":"exclusive-african-civil-society-speaks-out-against-continents-400bn-gas-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/exclusive-african-civil-society-speaks-out-against-continents-400bn-gas-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: African civil society speaks out against continent\u2019s $400bn gas trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot2022-09-20104134_1663659729.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Civil society groups have spoken out against plans to develop new gas infrastructure across Africa, as an investigation from Energy Monitor reveals that $400bn worth of new projects are on the way.\u00a0<br\/><\/strong><br\/>The figure is based on a new analysis of exclusive datasets provided by GlobalData, Energy Monitor\u2019s parent company, and includes planned upstream, midstream and downstream developments. In all, it is worth around 15% of the entire GDP of Africa in 2021.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Power Shift Africa\u2019s Wemanya agrees the continent needs to \u201cleapfrog the old, outdated and highly polluting energy systems that have failed to deliver dividends and energy access for Africans.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>\u201cThe prioritisation of investments and incentives towards renewable energy sources \u2013 which can provide reliable, affordable and universal access to low-carbon energy \u2013 must be the common approach for African governments and institutions such as the African Union.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil society groups have spoken out against plans to develop new gas infrastructure across Africa, as an investigation from Energy Monitor reveals that $400bn worth of new projects are on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5579,"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-5578","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\/5578","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=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}