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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Heads of state, industry leaders, climate activists, and civil society representatives are due to meet at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on November 6 in Egypt. Africa is expected to be the focus of the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is expected that this year\u2019s climate conference will review the gaps in climate change efforts and develop concrete strategies to help countries live up to their commitments,\u201d Botti Isaac, a Nigerian social commentator and political analyst, told Sputnik. \u201cRealistic plans need to be made particularly around climate finance \u2013 programs of financing should be developed. They should be deliberate about what investment plans are put forward and minimum commitment should be extracted in this regard. Achievable action plans and timelines should be reached with realistic mechanisms. International financial institutions should earmark resources to finance climate actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

COP27, the fifth climate conference hosted in Africa, will last for nearly two weeks in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh. It will mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UNFCCC, an international environmental treaty to combat \u201cdangerous human interference with the climate system.\u201d It was signed by 154 states in June 1992, calling for scientific research, regular meetings, and negotiations to adapt to climate change and ensure the world\u2019s sustainable development.<\/p>\n

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first effort to implement UNFCCC policies, was followed by the 2016 Paris Agreement, with the COP meeting annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change. Both the Kyoto protocol and successive Paris accords have repeatedly come under criticism for either delivering \u201ctoo little, too late\u201d or hamstringing development and undermining national economies.<\/p>\n

One of the most pressing issues has long been the problem of the lack of responsibility and the lack of a mechanism to make countries meet the obligations they assume.<\/p>\n

According to Bond, it might take nothing short of \u201ca climate-conscious revolutionary movement\u201d \u2013 or one capable of profound reforms, as Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s Labour Party or Bernie Sanders\u2019 Democratic Party might have delivered \u2013 to finally get accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 included a provision that there would be no \u2018liability\u2019 for the high-polluting wealthy countries, and that was one reason the UN has lost credibility. The greatest climate scientist, James Hansen, called the Paris deal \u2018bullsh*t\u2019 and Greta Thunberg is correct to call recent negotiations \u2018blah-blah-blah\u2019 because they are not going to deliver,\u201d argued the professor.<\/p>\n

Loss & Damage Compensation for Africa The compensation issue is by no means trivial, given that the Global North remains the major \u201cpolluter,\u201d while the Global South continues to reap the whirlwind of environmental disasters despite accounting for just a fraction of greenhouse emissions.<\/p>\n

But that is not all: the situation has been steadily deteriorating over the past several years. Thus, droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa tripled between 1970\u20131979 and 2010\u20132019, while in 2018, devastating cyclones affected 2.2 million people in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. At the same time, severe flooding resulted in mortality and forced migration from loss of shelter, cultivated land, and livestock in West and Central Africa. General medical journal The Lancet, draws attention to the upsurge in epidemics on the continent due to changes in vector ecology brought about by floods and damage to environmental hygiene: it particularly cites rises in malaria, dengue fever, Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Lyme disease, Ebola virus disease, West Nile virus, and other infections. On top of that, environmental factors have also damaged water and food supply, causing up to 1.7 million deaths in Africa annually.<\/p>\n

Still, between 1960 and 2020, Africa only accounted for 3.3% of global emissions on average, while Asia, Europe, and North America have each emitted over eight times the carbon of Africa, according to some estimates.<\/p>\n

Most assertive negotiators from the Global South are increasingly advocating the \u201closs & damage\u201d approach, which envisages polluters paying for the harm they have caused, according to Bond. He lamented the fact that the West and its allies \u201chave refused this demand with an appalling arrogance, especially US climate czar John Kerry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue has also been raised by Sudanese-British billionaire Mo Ibrahim and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation prior to the November climate event in Egypt. The foundation presented a report containing 15 recommendations for COP27 participants with the aim to restore \u201cclimate justice\u201d for Africa. In particular, the document argued that mitigation of emissions alone cannot address the scope of the problem, urging for increased focus on adaptation and \u201closs and damage\u201d compensation.<\/p>\n

It bemoaned the fact that the current climate debate led by the Global North is focused on achieving net-zero emissions, while \u201cadaptation measures have been deprioritized while no ad-hoc \u2018loss and damage\u2019 fund has been set up yet.\u201d The Mo Ibrahim Foundation further argued that African countries urgently need adaptation investments in early warning systems, disaster risk reduction, and climate-resilient infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The professor emphasized that \u201cthere will be a major disappointment when the loss & damage climate-finance demands from poor countries are rejected\u201d at the forthcoming COP27. \u201cThe ongoing rise of emissions since COVID recovery began reflects the failure of UN member states to stick with their 2015 \u2018Nationally Determined Contribution\u2019 pledge, and another decision will be made, implicitly or explicitly, to avoid any accountability or punishment,\u201d the academic highlighted.<\/p>\n

Transition to Green Energy Africa\u2019s future transition to green energy has also been triggering heated debate, with environmentalists urging the continent to \u201cleap-frog\u201d fossil fuels and embrace green energy and renewables.<\/p>\n

Still, the crux of the matter is that the continent has the highest rate of energy poverty in the world, with a whopping 600 million people in Africa having zero access to electricity. Building green energy facilities and electrical infrastructure across the continent require huge external investments which wealthy nations have yet to offer to Africans. As a result, millions of Africans rely on polluting fuels such as firewood, charcoal, or kerosene to prepare daily meals and warm themselves.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Africa boasts substantial natural gas and oil reserves, which could be used to boost the continent\u2019s development. However, the devil is always in the details: while multinational energy corporations are eager to exploit Africa\u2019s vast natural resources, they remain reluctant to invest in the region\u2019s own energy processing facilities, infrastructure, and plants, which would have made the continent\u2019s players self-sufficient. For their part, Western climate officials and environmentalists warn global investors against pouring money into long-term gas projects in Africa, stressing that by 2050, the world will have got rid of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe turmoil in global politics and especially energy markets, and Europe\u2019s rapid turn to Africa for more oil, gas and even coal, are creating toxic conditions,\u201d said Bond. \u201cElites here support this, while activists have been protesting for a year especially against offshore oil and gas extraction, and last month they won a major court case against Shell and its local ally.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the October 3 climate conference in London, Sudanese-British billionaire Mo Ibrahim criticized Western leaders for preventing African nations from developing their own gas reserves over climate change fears. The Ibrahim foundation urges COP leaders to consider natural gas as a key transitional fuel for Africa, which could be developed in parallel with renewables. The report notes that renewables alone will be insufficient to address the continent\u2019s energy gap. Meanwhile, natural gas, an abundant resource in Africa and the least polluting fossil fuel, could be used as a bridge on the path to clean green energy sources.<\/p>\n

COP27 Expectations are Still Bleak Isaac expressed concerns that the forthcoming COP27 could bear little, if any, fruit. He noted that the world would need to invest $4-6 trillion per year with more expectation in terms of financial contribution from developed countries to fight climate change. \u201cBut the sad reality is that this is not happening,\u201d he noted. Currently, when the Global North is engulfed by inflation and increasing recession there\u2019s little hope that any financial aid to address pressing climate issues will materialize.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the present system aimed at addressing the consequences of climate change remains ineffective, according to Isaac. \u201cSincerity of purpose is needed if the world is to achieve anything concrete around addressing climate change beyond these annual talks (COP this, COP that). More investment is expected in the area of clean energy, reduction in the production of fossil fuel, development of critical technology to reduce carbon emission,\u201d the Nigerian analyst concluded.<\/p>\n

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