Campaigners Warn Against 'Reckless' Fossil Fuel Expansion in Africa

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'Africa needs to wake up and stop behaving like Europe's petrol stations and always looking at resolving their energy problems, it is now time to think collectively on what's best for the continent and its people.'

a statement on Wednesday denouncing African leaders' plan to develop new dirty energy projects, saying it would have drastic consequences for the continent and lock the region into a fossil fuel-based future.

An African Union committee—which the advocacy groups noted is"made up of energy, not climate ministers"—recently unveiled the"African Common Position on Energy Access and Transition." The proposal, which promotes an energy policy that centers fossil gas and nuclear energy over cleaner and cheaper renewables, will be put forward for adoption by African heads of state at the United Nations' COP27 in November 2022.

The proposal comes on the heels of the European Union's recent vote in favor of a new rule that will classify fossil gas and nuclear projects as 'green'—making them eligible for low-cost loans and subsidies, while easing the process to acquire Africa's energy resources.the E.U. decision as furthering the goal of shifting dangerous nuclear technologies away from Europe and onto African soil.

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