{"id":5608,"date":"2023-01-17T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/fossil-fuels-fairness-finance-climate-fights-to-watch-in-2023"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:31","slug":"fossil-fuels-fairness-finance-climate-fights-to-watch-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/fossil-fuels-fairness-finance-climate-fights-to-watch-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil fuels, fairness, finance: Climate fights to watch in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2022-10-25T080755Z_57834840_RC2T5X9JKNEI_RTRMADP_3_NIGERIA-FLOODS_167395858628329.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>That has made it much harder for wealthy nations \u2013 whose emissions have driven the crisis \u2013 to ignore the need for more financial help for those suffering the most in a warming world.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>Last month, at the COP27 summit in Egypt, they agreed to create a fund to help communities on the frontline deal with growing &#8220;loss and damage&#8221; from climate change impacts.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, Power Shift Africa&#8217;s Director, said: &#8220;COP28 is already being talked down by some climate campaigners, writing it off due to the host nation being the United Arab Emirates. However, that actually offers a big opportunity. Normally disruptive members of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), like Saudi Arabia, are less likely to derail their neighbour&#8217;s big moment in the global spotlight.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That has made it much harder for wealthy nations \u2013 whose emissions have driven the crisis \u2013 to ignore the need for more financial help for those suffering the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5609,"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":[26,25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-finance","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","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=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}