Africa Is Not Europe’s Gas Station

Mohamed Adow,

NAIROBI – Having been thrust to the front lines of a climate crisis we did not cause, Africans have long urged rich countries to wean themselves off fossil fuels and slash their greenhouse-gas emissions.

But, instead of heeding our calls, the rich have remained addicted to oil and gas – much of which, in Europe’s case, has come from Russia.

Now they are taking this insult a step further: in their drive to end their dependence…