We have a credibility problem all of us: We’re talking and we’re starting to act, but we’re not doing enough. We must see the so-called ‘dash for gas’ for what it really is: a dash down a bridge to nowhere, leaving the countries of the world facing climate chaos and billions in stranded assets, especially here in Africa. We have to move beyond the era of fossil fuel colonialism.
Former U.S. Vice President & climate change activist, Al Gore
In his opening address to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) held in Cairo, Egypt, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres warned that the world is on ‘the highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator … We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing’. He asserted that climate change is on a different timeline and a different scale; it is the defining issue of our age and a central challenge of this century; and it is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner.’