Why the Climate Panic About Africa Is Wrong
Originally appeared in Foreign Policy, December 6, 2021. As climate pledges pile up, a worrying theme is emerging...
Originally appeared in Foreign Policy, December 6, 2021. As climate pledges pile up, a worrying theme is emerging...
Varun Sivaram heads anyone’s short list of global solar power experts. A physicist, best-selling author and clean energy technology expert with experience spanning the corporate, policy and academic sectors, Sivaram was most recently the CTO of ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy firm. His 2018 book, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet, was heralded by the Financial Times as “the best available overview of where the industry finds itself today, and a road map for how it can reach that brighter future.”
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Nigeria is home to one in every five Africans and it has the continent’s largest economy. More than half of Nigerians are under 20 years old. Whether all these bright young people will drive growth or generate instability depends largely on whether Nigeria’s economy can produce jobs for them. And Nigeria won’t be able to create jobs at the required pace until it solves its energy crisis.
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Europe’s energy crisis is aggravating a decades-old tension between the developed and the developing world. As wealthy countries…