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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