"#Africa will seek to present itself as a solution to the global warming crisis in a declaration to be signed by heads of state on September 6 at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit in #Nairobi, Kenya.
African leaders committed to tripling the proportion of electricity generated from renewable sources to 60% by 2030 compared with the 2019 levels."
#NairobiDeclaration
https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/africa-offers-global-heating-solution-in-first-climate-declaration-20230901
The #Congo #rainforest is a carbon sink comparable to the Amazon, and #Africa’s untapped #RenewableEnergy potential is 50 times the global anticipated electricity demand by 2040.
Africans could save the world.
If the world lets them.
"#ReconAfrica’s projections of 120 billion barrels of oil [in the #Okavango Basin in #Namibia and #Botswana] could produce a “carbon gigabomb” of 51.6 gigatonnes of #emissions.
#BP’s big new gas plans in West Africa pose climate and biodiversity threats in #Senegal, and lucrative contracts with #ENI, #ExxonMobil, BP, #Shell and #Total threaten #Mozambique.
Our communities cannot risk a repeat of the devastation the fossil fuel industry brought to the Niger Delta.."
"The first #AfricaClimateSummit opens on Monday in #Kenya.
Significant investment in Africa’s adaptation to #ClimateChange, including better #forecasting, will be an urgent goal at the September 5-6 meeting. At the heart of every issue on the agenda, from energy to agriculture, is the lack of #data collection that drives decisions as crucial as when to plant – and when to flee."
"The rapidly growing African continent of more than 1.3 billion people is losing 5% to 15% of its #GDP growth every year to the widespread impacts of #ClimateChange, according to [Kenya's President] Ruto. It’s a source of deep frustration in the resource-rich region that contributes by far the least to global warming."
https://apnews.com/article/africa-climate-summit-kenya-cc6f0a694ea12a1d42371df8f0fdee69
The host of the first Africa Climate Summit says climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters. Kenya's president says the continent of more than 1.3 billion people is losing 5% to 15% of its GDP growth every year to the impacts of climate change. That's a source of frustration in the region that contributes the least to global warming. The summit includes calls to reform the global financial structures that deepen African debt with higher interest rates. Africa also wants to make more of its extensive natural wealth.
"Speech after speech, conversation after conversation, the message from the #AfricanClimateSummit (ACS) is consistent. #Africa must lead the fight against #ClimateChange. The West can no longer impose solutions on the continent: African solutions for African problems. "
“Our strengths outweigh our weaknesses and our potential to contribute positively to the world far outweighs our need for assistance,” Ruto said in his opening speech.
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