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"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...

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 decen...