{"id":6137,"date":"2023-05-29T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/stop-funding-oil-and-gas-projects"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:31:51","slug":"stop-funding-oil-and-gas-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/stop-funding-oil-and-gas-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop funding oil and gas projects\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WB-protesters-2_1685359735.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This year\u2019s Spring Meetings of the World Bank that took place at the institution\u2019s headquarters in Washington, D.C. from April 10-16 were dominated by demands from shareholders to reform and tackle contemporary challenges.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>And top on the list were the challenges of the debt burden weighing down economies of developing countries and the climate change crisis.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cThat the World Bank is promoting and funding gas projects at a time countries are moving to cleaner energy is outright mockery to this important transition. It is especially a sore insult to millions of people in developing countries who are left with little \u2013 if not more impoverished \u2013 in the wake of this destructive exploitation,\u201d said Dean Bhemukuzi Bhebhe from Power Shift Africa.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Spring Meetings of the World Bank that took place at the institution\u2019s headquarters in Washington, D.C. from April 10-16 were dominated by demands from shareholders to reform and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6138,"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-6137","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\/6137","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=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6808,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/6808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}