Africa has the world’s lowest per capita energy use, yet the World Bank, the IEA, and the G7 are pushing it to skip fossil fuels and adopt renewable energy that cannot deliver reliable power without a stable baseload.
In this CNAPS issue brief, Brenda Shaffer argues there is no real-world precedent for “leapfrogging” straight to renewables, and that cutting off financing for African fossil fuel development is deepening the continent’s poverty rather than fighting climate change.
