{"id":5622,"date":"2022-10-04T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/gas-in-africa-still-a-transition-fuel"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:10","slug":"gas-in-africa-still-a-transition-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/gas-in-africa-still-a-transition-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas in Africa: Still a \u2018transition fuel\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot2022-10-04124552_1664876772.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The science is clear: to limit global warming to 1.5\u00b0C \u2013 beyond which some climate impacts will become irreversible and self-reinforcing \u2013 new oil and gas fields should no longer be being licensed for development, and we should be transitioning away from burning coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible across all sectors.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230;\u201cExploiting Africa\u2019s gas\u2026 does not support the African ambition of ending energy poverty, achieving prosperity and building resilience to the climate chaos,\u201d argues Bhekumuzi Bhebhe from the Kenya-based think tank Power Shift Africa. \u201cInvestments in large gas production will lock African countries into the gas sector for decades and reduce available public and private finance for cleaner and more job-creating renewable energy projects.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science is clear: to limit global warming to 1.5\u00b0C \u2013 beyond which some climate impacts will become irreversible and self-reinforcing \u2013 new oil and gas fields should no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5623,"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-5622","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\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}