Climate plans: CAPPA warns against fossil fuel expansion, corporate capture

… Says Nigeria’s 2060 net-zero ambition contradicts 3m barrels-per-day oil target … Demands phase-down of fossil fuels, grants, protection of community land rights
By Chioma Obinna

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) on Tuesday warned that African governments risk turning their climate commitments into instruments for expanding fossil fuel production and advancing corporate interests at the expense of vulnerable communities.
The organisation, alongside the Africa Make Big Polluters Pay Coalition (MBPP Africa), said Africa’s climate transition would amount to little more than rhetoric unless governments confronted the contradictions between their renewa...