{"id":5731,"date":"2022-08-17T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/outrage-as-african-leaders-seek-to-push-for-fossil-fuel-investment-at-cop27"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:28","slug":"outrage-as-african-leaders-seek-to-push-for-fossil-fuel-investment-at-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/outrage-as-african-leaders-seek-to-push-for-fossil-fuel-investment-at-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as African leaders seek to push for fossil fuel investment at COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/D7Tp4NqpdKu4E6BSXR646mm7iudcQFfF3jp4aOOS_1660738827.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A proposal by African leaders to increase investment in fossil fuels has caused an uproar among climate activists.<br\/><\/strong><br\/>Lobbyists warned that Africa was in danger of locking the continent into\u00a0fossil\u00a0fuels\u00a0for decades to come, with\u00a0leaders\u00a0considering a new position that would prioritize gas and nuclear over cleaner, cheaper, renewables.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, Director of Power Shift Africa, said: \u201cAfrica is blessed with an abundance of wind, solar and other clean renewable energies.\u00a0\u00a0African leaders should be maximizing this potential and harnessing the abundant wind and sun which will help boost energy access and tackle climate change.\u00a0 What Africa does not need is to be shackled with expensive fossil fuel infrastructure which will be obsolete in a few years as the climate crisis worsens.<br\/><br\/>\u201cIt would be a shameful betrayal of\u00a0African\u00a0people, already on the front line of the climate crisis, if\u00a0African\u00a0leaders\u00a0use this November\u2019s COP27 climate summit on\u00a0African\u00a0soil to lock Africa into a\u00a0fossil\u00a0fuel\u00a0based future. Africa does not need the dirty energy of the past, it needs forward looking leadership that can take advantage of the clean energy of the present and future.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal by African leaders to increase investment in fossil fuels has caused an uproar among climate activists.Lobbyists warned that Africa was in danger of locking the continent into\u00a0fossil\u00a0fuels\u00a0for decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5732,"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-5731","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\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}