Responding to the publication of the Global Carbon Project report, Christian Aid's Pan-African Senior Advocacy Adviser, Joab Okanda, said:
“For those of us on the African continent this was the news we've been dreading. The prospect of global temperature rise above 1.5C within 9 years is our nightmare. Our prosperity relies on limiting rising temperatures, which are robbing us of our livelihoods and the lives of our loved ones, through droughts, floods and storms. In the Paris Agreement all countries committed to strive to keep temperatures below 1.5C and yet nations continue to explore for new fossil fuels, despite the fact we can’t even burn all the current known reserves if we want to achieve that goal.
“It’s disheartening that emissions continue to go up, this year another 1%, when we have the renewable energy technology to make the transition to a low carbon world. We have the know-how to roll out clean energy which can stop the climate crisis. But we need countries to stop giving money to fossil fuel companies, to stop subsidising coal, oil and gas with tax breaks and instead pour that investment into the clean energy that we need to power our future.”
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