'This rush for gas and oil has nothing to do with increasing energy access for Africa. It has everything to do with propping up fossil fuel dependent economies of the North.'
"We, as the communities that are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, call on our leaders to set their sights on implementing sustainable renewable energy solutions," said one campaigner from Senegal.Climate justice campaigners in Africa on Tuesday rebuked the International Energy Agency over a new report that urges nations across the continent to quickly extract and export their natural gas reserves before the world shifts to renewable energy sources.
"Reducing flaring and venting could quickly make at least 10 bcm of African gas available for export without the development of new supply and transport infrastructure," the report reads.by the IEA just last year, which stated in no uncertain terms that the continued production of fossil fuels by any country or continent has no place on the path to net-zero carbon emissions.
Bronwen Tucker, a researcher at Oil Change International, said the IEA's guidance for Africa"ignores both frontline communities fighting gas and decades of extraction hurting not helping development."Landry Ninteretse of 350 Africa, the push"will primarily benefit the fossil fuel industry and western societies seeking to fill the gap left by current shortages from Russia.
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