well, i think with senegal actually last week, we agreed on a just energy transition partnership with senegal, where senegal has agreed to put in place 40% renewable energy by 2030 and developed countries have come in with a package of $2.5 billion to support it. every country, of course, can take its pathway, of course. and i think the question that i have and that i m confronted with often by other leaders in africa is, why are you asking us to provide you with fossil fuels when what we actually want to do is have a different development pathway that s about decentralised, renewable energy and scaling it up? why is it that so little amount of funding is going to renewables in africa? and that is a problem because then, itjust perpetuates the same model of an extractivist development model where fossil fuels come to the north and we use them and continue to do what we re doing, right? so instead, we are working on partnerships we vejust done with colombia where we say, o
renewable energy and scaling it up? why is it that so little amount of funding is going to renewables in africa? and that is a problem because then, itjust perpetuates the same model of an extractivist development model where fossil fuels come to the north and we use them and continue to do what we re doing, right? so instead, we are working on partnerships we vejust done with colombia where we say, ok, on eye level, what what are you looking for? what kind of local value creation can we have in your country? what kind ofjob training? we re doing this with kenya, with president ruto in order to provide those jobs, get the renewables moving so you can become an exporter of. crosstalk. and they re committed to it? ..green hydrogen. yeah. and they want a clean future. yeah, they do. but they re saying, in the meantime, we cannot industrialise our countries without using the fossil fuels that we have discovered . i want to put to you this point same point by th
that period be, in your view? well, i think with senegal, actually, last week we agreed a just energy transition partnership with senegal, where senegal has agreed to put in place 40% renewable energy by 2030, and developed countries have come in with a package of $2.5 billion to support it. every country, of course, can take its pathway, of course. i think the question that i have and that i m confronted with often by other leaders in africa is, why are you asking us to provide you with fossil fuels when what we actually want to do is have a different development pathway that s about decentralised renewable energy and scaling it up? why is it that so little amount of funding is going to renewables in africa? that is a problem because then itjust perpetuates the same model of an extractivist development model where fossil fuels come to the north and we use them and continue to do what we re doing. certainly. so, instead, we are