{"id":5610,"date":"2023-04-14T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/from-an-african-perspective-grant-shappss-energy-policy-makes-no-sense"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:07","slug":"from-an-african-perspective-grant-shappss-energy-policy-makes-no-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/from-an-african-perspective-grant-shappss-energy-policy-makes-no-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"From an African perspective, Grant Shapps\u2019s energy policy makes no sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/newstatesman1_1681461527.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In Kenya we look with interest at the activities of the UK. Despite the darkness of imperialism, the ties that bind Kenya and Britain remain strong.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>This is why it was utterly disappointing for us to see that the UK government\u2019s recent energy and climate policy announcements pose a direct threat to our safety and prosperity. We are following developments in the UK closely, and with dread.<br\/><br\/>The plans published on Thursday, originally billed as a \u201cGreen Day\u201d by the government, leave a bitter taste for those of us hoping to see the UK offering global leadership in the fight against climate change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kenya we look with interest at the activities of the UK. Despite the darkness of imperialism, the ties that bind Kenya and Britain remain strong. This is why it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5611,"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":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6825,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/6825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}