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Issue 339            24•February•2022                     Week 08









                  ™     ™The EU and Africa: on the road to COP27


                          The EU failed to achieve a number of concrete climate breakthroughs at the recent
                          EU-AU summit, making it difficult for Europe to deliver on its climate change
                          commitments to Africa by the time of COP27 in Egypt in November

                  ™     ™Coal power’s role in green recovery


                          Wind power has the potential to unlock largely untapped socioeconomic and
                          environmental opportunities in the developing world over the next four years and
                          could provide up to 2.2mn jobs


                  ™     ™Stemming rising methane emissions

                          Methane emissions, the second largest source of global warming, rose by nearly 5%
                          in 2021, IEA’s Global Methane Tracker showed
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