Africa Offers Global Warming Solution in 1st Climate Declaration
- African Union asks members to triple reliance on renewables
- Leaders bemoan impact of climate change, lack of finance
Photovoltaic panels at a solar plant in Frankfort, South Africa.
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Africa will seek to present itself as a solution to the global warming crisis in a declaration to be signed by heads of state on Sept. 6 at the inaugural Africa Climate summit in Nairobi.
African leaders, under the auspices of the African Union, committed to tripling the proportion of electricity generated from renewable sources to 60% by 2030 compared with 2019 levels, according to a copy of the draft document seen by Bloomberg.