The report was co-authored by a group of independent experts under the leadership of Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and one of Africa's most senior experts on climate, energy, and development. The report highlights ways in which Pan-African collaboration can anchor the continent on a new path of development and just transition, by exploiting its huge renewable energy, food sovereignty and development potential. It anchors its analysis by examining how climate change, misguided development policies and colonial dependencies have locked African countries into perpetual traps, including external debt. It highlights three structural traps facing Africa, namely: Food insecurity, food imports and undernutrition; energy poverty created by inappropriate fossil-fuel based systems; and failed or ineffectual industrial strategies. Further, President Ruto states: "Realising the continent's potential requires bold, new approaches matched to the magnitude of the existential challenge posed by climate change which affects the continent disproportionately.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 25, 2023 14:52 UTC