The climate crisis is hitting the world’s poorest people hardest, writes vanessa_vash. But clean-energy solutions can fuel development and help make these communities more resilient to unrelenting crises, she argues
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskEnergy poverty, which is already at high levels across the continent—about 600m people in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity—will be worsened. That will cause ripple effects through people’s everyday lives, leading to poor health, lost education and damaged livelihoods.
In response, some African leaders are encouraging their citizens to go electric. Policies such as switching to electric vehicles are proposed as a way to reduce vulnerability to oil-price shocks. Although electrical grids and charging infrastructure are a long way from where they need to be to support this, calls to switch to clean technologies will grow as a result of this energy crisis.
Calls are already growing, including from the International Energy Agency , for more investment in renewable energy in Africa to provide protection against the unexpected price swings being caused by this energy crisis—and future ones. The same logic applies around the world, but in Africa heeding such calls is even more critical, to combat high levels of energy poverty. Renewable energy is best positioned to help achieve that goal.
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