Climate Change : Ugandan President Denounces Double Standard

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has lashed out at Europe’s return to coal-fired power plants in the face of the energy crisis and at the same time telling African nations not to use fossil fuels. In an online publication on Wednesday that coincides with the UN’s COP27 climate summit taking place in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, President Museveni said, “We will not accept one rule for them and another rule for us.”  He added that “Europe's failure to meet its climate goals should not be Africa's problem.”
Museveni's comments follow warnings from African leaders at COP27 about the damage climate change is already wreaking on the continent. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in February warned that tens of millions of Africans face a future marked by drought, disease and displacement due to global heating. Wealthy nations have failed to provide a pledged $100 billion a year from 2020 to developing nations to help them build resilience and green their economies, reaching just $83 billion according to the UN.
Africa's carbon footprint is the lowest of any continent, accounting for around three per cent of global CO2 emissions. “We will not allow African progress to be the victim of Europe’s failure to meet its own climate goals," said the veteran Ugandan leader.
Mr Museveni who is one of the longest African leaders in power reiterated that, European nations needed to end their “brazen double-standards” and “hypocrisy”, and took aim at what he said were conditions that Western investment in fossil fuels in Africa was possible only for oil and gas that would be sent to Europe. “It is morally bankrupt for Europeans to...