{"id":89935,"date":"2022-08-07T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=89935"},"modified":"2022-08-07T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T16:11:41","slug":"african-nations-plan-to-develop-their-fossil-fuel-resources-climate-change-be-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2022\/08\/07\/african-nations-plan-to-develop-their-fossil-fuel-resources-climate-change-be-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"African Nations Plan To Develop Their Fossil Fuel Resources, Climate Change Be Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aug. 6, 2022 (EIRNS)–The folks at London\u2019s fanatically Malthusian the Guardian<\/em> are besides themselves, having been leaked a document revealing that African nations are discussing going into next November\u2019s COP27 UN climate summit with a common position asserting their right to develop their fossil fuel resources, in order to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an Aug. 1 \u00abexclusive,\u00bb the Guardian<\/em> reports that someone passed them a five-page \u00abtechnical document\u00bb with an accompanying 25-page explanation revealing the plan, which was prepared by the African Union for a June 14-16 meeting of AU energy ministers. That document asserts that \u00abin the short to medium term, fossil fuels, especially natural gas, will have to play a crucial role in expanding modern energy access in addition to accelerating the uptake of renewables.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The Guardian warned<\/a><\/em> that if Africa dares to proceed on \u00abnew exploration for gas, and the exploitation of Africa\u2019s vast reserves of oil,\u00bb the entire climate scheme might collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Africa must not advance past unreliable \u00absun and wind,\u00bb the head of the green \u00abPower Shift Africa\u00bb thinktank, Mohamad Adow insists! Africa Coal Network coordinator Lorraine Chiponda denounced African leaders discussing such an idea as \u00abreckless,\u00bb even as she admitted that 600 million people in Africa \u00ablive in energy poverty.\u00bb That is, they have no access to electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The British Royal Family is on the case. On July 6, a fellow at Chatham House\/Royal Institute of International Relations issued a so-called \u00abexpert opinion,\u00bb warning<\/a> that this year\u2019s UN COP27 summit being hosted by Egypt, an African nation, is a problem. Egypt has not set any quantifiable emission reduction targets, has no economy-wide carbon reduction target, and never published a long-term strategy for decarbonization. It is also the second-largest producer of natural gas in Africa, and is becoming a fossil gas hub for the Eastern Mediterranean, it notes. Furthermore, Egypt has \u00abvoiced support for other African countries to extract and deploy fossil gas and oil resources, making it one of the protagonists of the \u2018great fossil gas pushback\u2019. These advocates defend the right of developing countries to deploy fossil gas as a \u2018transition fuel\u2019 and champion its necessity to solve energy poverty,\u00bb the author complained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 With typical imperial arrogance, however, the author assures that Egypt will be \u00abmalleable,\u00bb if attention is paid to change its stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aug. 6, 2022 (EIRNS)–The folks at London\u2019s fanatically Malthusian the Guardian are besides themselves, having been leaked a document revealing that African nations are discussing going into next November\u2019s COP27 UN climate summit with a common position asserting their right to develop their fossil fuel resources, in order to develop. In an Aug. 1 \u00abexclusive,\u00bb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":89936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,763,520,31,505,700],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-89935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-britain","category-updates-development","category-updates-environmentalism","category-updates","category-power-energy","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89946,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935\/revisions\/89946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}