New funding programs announced at COP27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels, but the money isn’t going to places without energy
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt—New climate aid is finally beginning to flow to poorer nations that burn fossil fuels. Left on the sidelines are countries that use some of the smallest amounts of energy in the world.
Less aid seems to be available to countries like his own, he said, even though they are on the front lines of climate change and did almost nothing to create the problem. Somalia doesn’t have the infrastructure that would qualify it to take part in a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership of the kind announced here Tuesday for Indonesia. A cadre of rich countries, including the United States, offered $20 billion to bankroll Indonesia’s transition to renewable energy in exchange for a commitment that it retire its large fleet of coal-fired power plants early. An earlier agreement will phase out South Africa’s coal plants.
The Horn of Africa is in the midst of a devastating drought that began in early 2021. As of August, it had pushed more than 1 million Somalis off their land in search of water and food, according to the U.N. refugee agency. That’s in addition to nearly 3 million Somalis who were already internally displaced persons, or IDPs, because of factors like the armed insurgency that the government has been battling since 2006.
“Climate change should serve as the launchpad for these countries to move from a humanitarian context to development,” he added.
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