COP27 At Sharm El Sheikh: Africa's Chance To Break From Climate Colonialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : According to the New York Times, no slouch in the push for renewable energy and the climate crusade, "European leaders have been converging on Africa's capital cities, eager to find alternatives to Russian natural gas."
52% : No longer can it be taken for granted that countries in sub-Saharan Africa - where 600 million people lack access to electricity and use fuelwood and charcoal for cooking and heating indoors with horrendous impacts on respiratory health and mortality -- will follow the International Energy Agency's and the World Bank's magical thinking about renewable energy.
52% : But there is every hope that African countries, like China and India, will not be thwarted in their climb up the very same energy ladder from wood and coal to refined oil and natural gas derivatives that the West used in its ascent to human betterment.
48% : In a recent op-ed, Birol said "I talk to energy policymakers all the time and none of them complains of relying too much on clean energy.
47% : As COP26 held in Glasgow last year headed for its final day, a negotiating group of 22 countries including China and India called the "Like-Minded Developing Countries" objected to the "mitigation centric" approach of the US and EU.

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