{"id":5727,"date":"2022-08-17T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/ngos-decry-african-leaders-plan-to-push-for-fossil-fuel-use-in-cop27"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:30","slug":"ngos-decry-african-leaders-plan-to-push-for-fossil-fuel-use-in-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/ngos-decry-african-leaders-plan-to-push-for-fossil-fuel-use-in-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs decry African leaders&#8217; plan to push for fossil fuel use in COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A coalition of African NGOs has spoken out against the \u201cshameful\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d decision by leaders of the African Union to push for the continuous use of fossil fuels to guarantee access to electricity amid the climate crisis.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>\u201cA technical committee of the African Union \u2013 made up of energy, not climate ministers \u2013 has recently proposed an \u2018African Common Position on Energy Access and Transition\u2019\u2019 centers on fossil gas and nuclear energy, at the expense of renewables, and is proposed for adoption by African Heads of State and launched at COP27,\u201d the NGOs wrote in a statement released on August 2.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Describing the committee&#8217;s approach as a \u201cshameful betrayal of African people,\u201d campaigner Mohamed Adow, Director of Power Shift Africa, warned of \u201cAfrican leaders use [of] this November\u2019s COP27 climate summit on African soil to lock Africa into a fossil fuel based future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of African NGOs has spoken out against the \u201cshameful\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d decision by leaders of the African Union to push for the continuous use of fossil fuels to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5728,"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-5727","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\/5727","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=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}