TY - JOUR
T1 - Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future
AU - Mulugetta, Yacob
AU - Sokona, Youba
AU - Trotter, Philipp A.
AU - Fankhauser, Samuel
AU - Omukuti, Jessica
AU - Somavilla Croxatto, Lucas
AU - Steffen, Bjarne
AU - Tesfamichael, Meron
AU - Abraham, Edo
AU - More Authors, null
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Aligning development and climate goals means Africa’s energy systems will be based on clean energy technologies in the long term, but pathways to get there are uncertain and variable across countries. Although current debates about natural gas and renewables in Africa are heated, they largely ignore the substantial context specificity of the starting points, development objectives and uncertainties of each African country’s energy system trajectory. Here we—an interdisciplinary and majority African group of authors—highlight that each country faces a distinct solution space and set of uncertainties for using renewables or fossil fuels to meet its development objectives. For example, Ethiopia is headed for an accelerated green-growth pathway, but Mozambique is at a crossroads of natural gas expansion with implicit large-scale technological, economic, financial and social risks and uncertainties. We provide geopolitical, policy, finance and research recommendations to create firm country-specific evidence to identify adequate energy system pathways for development and to enable their implementation.
AB - Aligning development and climate goals means Africa’s energy systems will be based on clean energy technologies in the long term, but pathways to get there are uncertain and variable across countries. Although current debates about natural gas and renewables in Africa are heated, they largely ignore the substantial context specificity of the starting points, development objectives and uncertainties of each African country’s energy system trajectory. Here we—an interdisciplinary and majority African group of authors—highlight that each country faces a distinct solution space and set of uncertainties for using renewables or fossil fuels to meet its development objectives. For example, Ethiopia is headed for an accelerated green-growth pathway, but Mozambique is at a crossroads of natural gas expansion with implicit large-scale technological, economic, financial and social risks and uncertainties. We provide geopolitical, policy, finance and research recommendations to create firm country-specific evidence to identify adequate energy system pathways for development and to enable their implementation.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41560-022-01152-0
DO - 10.1038/s41560-022-01152-0
M3 - Article
SN - 2058-7546
VL - 7
SP - 1015
EP - 1022
JO - Nature Energy
JF - Nature Energy
IS - 11
ER -