Four hundred and twenty-five megaprojects to extract fossil fuels risk derailing the meager hopes of avoiding climate chaos. For Africa, which is responsible for only a tiny share of greenhouse gas emissions and whose urgency is development, stopping these projects is not necessarily a priority. Decryption in infographics.

New coal mines in southern Africa, gigantic gas project in the Rovuma basin, Mozambique, oil fields in the Libyan desert... Twenty-two giant fossil resource extraction projects have been identified on the continent by energy policy magazine as "climate bombs". What do they have in common? They can each potentially emit more than one gigaton of CO2 during their lifetime, equivalent to what the entire continent emitted in carbon dioxide in 2019 alone.

Published in mid-May, this study by the American scientific journal contributes to further destabilizing the international energy market, already affected by a "gas war" that is being played out in Europe and in which Africa intends to do well by hastening the implementation of fossil fuel projects to replace them with the Russian offer.

In this context, the 5,660 km long gas pipeline project between Nigeria and Morocco reached a decisive milestone on 1 June. READ FURTHER from the source above