{"id":6158,"date":"2022-11-01T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/the-invasion-of-ukraine-could-have-accelerated-the-planets-energy-transition"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:59","slug":"the-invasion-of-ukraine-could-have-accelerated-the-planets-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/the-invasion-of-ukraine-could-have-accelerated-the-planets-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"The invasion of Ukraine could have accelerated the planet&#8217;s energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/e0d839c9-4000-b99f-16f9-ca4d2a590350_1667296794.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The paradoxical and climate-positive effect of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is that global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are expected to peak as early as 2025, after increased investment in sustainable energies caused by the \u201cdeep reorientation\u201d of world energy markets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated on Thursday.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>Days before the COP27 World Climate Conference in Egypt, the Agency nevertheless warns in its 2022 annual report published Thursday, against the \u201cfractures\u201d between rich and poor countries in terms of investment in low-carbon energies, in calling for a \u201cmajor international effort\u201d to \u201creduce\u201d this \u201cworrying gap\u201d.<br\/><br\/>&#8230; \u201cWith an abundance of wind, sun and other renewable energies, Africa can lead the world on the path of transition and pave the way for energy sovereignty\u201d, said Mohamed Adow, founder and director of the climate think tank Power Shift Africa.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paradoxical and climate-positive effect of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is that global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are expected to peak as early as 2025, after increased investment in sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6159,"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-6158","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\/6158","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=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}