African climate diplomats reject African Union’s pro-gas stance for COP27

African climate negotiators have quashed a proposal by the African Union to promote gas as a bridge fuel for the continent at UN talks.

The executive council of the African Union had proposed that African nations adopt a common position at the Cop27 climate summit on Africa’s energy development.

...Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, said: “It would be a shameful betrayal of African people, already on the front line of the climate crisis, if African leaders use this November’s Cop27 climate summit on African soil to lock Africa into a fossil fuel based future.”

“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,” he added.