As countries from across the globe come together at COP27 to take action on the collective goals under the Paris Agreement and Convention from 6-8 November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, here are the key concepts you must know about:<\/p>\n
Energy colonialism<\/p>\n
The concept of Energy colonialism became a highlight at COP27 when think tank Power Shift Africa’s director and famous activist, Mohamed Adow accused European nations, especially Germany of practicing Energy Colonialism. <\/p>\n
Energy colonialism can be defined as a situation where foreign countries or companies use land and resources belonging to another country to generate energy for their own use.<\/p>\n
“Europe\u2019s dash for gas was threatening to lock Africa into polluting fossil fuels, rather than pursuing greener alternatives such as renewables,”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As countries from across the globe come together at COP27 to take action on the collective goals under the Paris Agreement and Convention from 6-8 November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, here are the key concepts you must know about: Energy colonialism The concept of Energy colonialism became a highlight at COP27 when think tank Power Shift Africa’s director and famous activist, Mohamed Adow accused European nations, especially Germany of practicing Energy Colonialism. Energy colonialism can be defined as a situation where foreign countries or companies use land and resources belonging to another country to generate energy for their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}