Thirteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Nowadays, Carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a widely accepted selected track towards sustainable application of fossil fuels. The ambition to introduce CCS technology in Africa raises particular considerations and challenges, where, more fundamentally, pressing socio-economic needs imply that there are other policy priorities than GHG mitigation. Is it possible for Africa to switch to renewable energy while, with affordable fossil fuels, more than half of Africans live without electricity? Energy insufficiency has adverse consequences for Africa’s development. Africa has a large area forest which has the ability of high emissions storage to prevent climate change. However, Africans, for lack of sufficient energy, have become friends of the forests because they have to cut wood for energy without a plan of replanting. In addition, Africa in its weak posture, despite its great resources, plunges the world further into the economic crisis. Unemployment in Africa is therefore the main problem of many African countries. It drives people to risk drowning in the Mediterranean in an effort to reach Europe. It draws young men especially to crime, militia gangs, even terror groups. A lead factor in joblessness is a lack of industry, and industry is not possible without power. Thus, there is need to implement appropriate energies strategies for Africa sustainable development and to investigate available energy resources in Africa that could provide efficient energy with low emissions. Many problems in the world can be solved by raising the standard African economy.