06-08-2025
Africa's Critical Minerals Key to Clean-Energy Drive, AFC Says
Africa's role in the global pivot toward cleaner sources of energy should focus on increasing the supply of critical minerals needed to make the transition, rather than on reducing its own negligible emissions, according to the president of the Africa Finance Corp.
'Africa doesn't emit enough greenhouse gas' to meaningfully impact on climate change, accounting for less than 4% of the global total, Samaila Zubairu told the Financing Africa Forward Summit in Johannesburg on Wednesday. 'We can't stop emissions that we don't make.'
