{"id":5606,"date":"2023-02-14T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/fossil-fuels-a-risk-as-the-tide-turns-to-renewable-energy"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:20","slug":"fossil-fuels-a-risk-as-the-tide-turns-to-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/fossil-fuels-a-risk-as-the-tide-turns-to-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil fuels a risk as the tide turns to renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/extinction_1676377935.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The global shift to the use of renewable energy is gaining momentum. This is after\u00a0European countries were forced to accelerate their renewable energy capacity when Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine sparked a global energy crisis.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>According to the European, Electricity Review published last month by energy think tank Ember, wind and solar generated a record fifth (22 percent) of EU electricity in 2022, for the first-time overtaking fossil gas (20 percent).<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, Climate justice advocate and director of energy and climate think-tank, Power Shift Africa said it has been clear from the start that the dash for African gas is superficial, and Europe has known this all along.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global shift to the use of renewable energy is gaining momentum. This is after\u00a0European countries were forced to accelerate their renewable energy capacity when Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine sparked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5607,"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-5606","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\/5606","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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}