Climate Change, Sub-Saharan Africa and the call for a just transition, By Samuel Stephen Wakdok

The United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the Conference of Parties 26 -COP26, was postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19. However, the event rescheduled for 31 October to 12 November 2021 holds in Glasgow, UK amidst a brewing global energy crisis. This energy crisis brings the Global North closest to the economic and energy challenges confronting the Global South particularly sub-Saharan Africa , because of rapidly and unjust global energy transitions.

Also, sometimes it feels like the West’s climate action and the quest for decarbonisation are more influenced by the need for energy independence driving energy transition than on climate change. A statement by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is reproduced here “It’s very clear that with energy in the long term, it is important to invest in renewables. That gives us stable prices and more independence, because 90% of the gas is imported to the European Union.

While climate change is real, the SSA region which contributes the least to carbon emission faces not only the disproportionate effect of climate change but also rising poverty or in some cases, a return to increasing poverty worsened by the global health pandemic caused by COVID-19.

Since sustainability involves three spheres namely economic, social and environmental spheres; downplaying the economic aspect of sustainability in an economic poor region will have consequences on the social aspect and definitely affect the environment. But denying or ignoring the environmental aspect including the climate emergency is not the solution either.

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