‘A friend of Africa won't fund fossil fuels’ – CSOs ask China to finance clean energy
Over 400 environmental activists and human rights organisations have asked China to stop funding fossil fuel projects in Africa., a non-governmental organisation working to end the age of fossil fuels, said the CSOs gathered at Innisfree Park in Sandton, Johannesburg, to stage a protest targeting the Chinese delegation attending the BRICS Summit.
The protesters criticised China over its backing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline , and its associated oil drilling sites in Uganda and Tanzania as well as China’s involvement in the Musina-Makhado special economic zone in South Africa.They also protested the Hwange coal-related projects in Zimbabwe and the Cabo Delgado gas projects in Mozambique — which they say are incompatible with China’s climate action and cooperation pledges to Global South countries.
“China must prove itself as a true friend to the continent by making a dramatic and practical shift toward the rapid and widespread development of renewable energy alternatives which promote sustainable and lasting job opportunities, far-reaching energy access and socio-economic and environmental well-being for communities across the continent,” the statement reads.
“Africans should not have to suffer through another epoch of careless extraction and exploitation. We are here to assert the potential and need for Africa to lead the renewable energy revolution.”Charity Migwi, Africa regional campaigner at 350.org, said: “China has the opportunity to step up and be the partner it claims to be to African nations by ending fossil fuel projects like EACOP once and for all.
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