Africa Needs More Renewables, So Why Is It Investing In Fossil Fuels?
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
60% : Large, centrally planned fossil-fuel projects typically benefit from state-guaranteed funding.59% : The financing structure of renewable energy investments varies widely across Sub-Saharan Africa, with projects ranging from fully debt-financed to fully equity-financed models.
46% : Financing is also unevenly distributed, with a few countries receiving the bulk, while the 33 least-developed nations secured only 37% of renewable commitments from 2010 to 2019 Africa is missing out on the green technology revolution that is making non-fossil energy the cheapest option.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.