The plan is to advance the findings of this petition in media and public discourse to expose the harmful consequence and hypocrisy of the G7 action and embarrass G7 leaders into reversing policy on financing hydrocarbon energy.

DEATHS FROM HOUSEHOLD AIR POLLUTION

World Health Organization document - 

KEY FACTS

*Around 2.4 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste), and coal, which generates harmful household air pollution.

*Household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year in 2020, including over 237 000 deaths of children under the age of 5.
The combined ambient and house are associated with 6.7 million premature deaths annually.

*Household air pollution exposure leads to non-communicable diseases, including stroke, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung cancer.

*Women and children, typically responsible for household chores such as cooking and collecting firewood, bear the most significant health burden from using polluting fuels and technologies in homes.

HYPOCRISY

Purposeful Impoverishment of African Nations. "The climate goals wealthy nations demanded at the recent COP26 summit aren’t only absurd, they are a death sentence for Africans."

# Africa is experiencing technological colonialism, by self-appointed do-gooders bullying Africans to deprive the continent of safe, inexpensive, and prolific energy. Some are finally starting to react against them. Will it soon allow the average African to rise to the standard of living we enjoy in the West?

# Africa needs electricity, affordable, dependable, and continuous energy to break existing industrial barriers. This means that coal must be a mandatory first step. As a fuel, it is readily available, cheap, and requires minimal technology and capital investments. It is, after all, how the colonial West gained economic and industrial dominance over the rest of the world in the last 150 years.

# Forcing African nations to build their future on unreliable and intermittent green energy, meaning wind and solar, denies them entry into the modern-industrialized world and keeps them “in their place” as serfs and subservient to the Western needs. How can an emerging nation ever hope to compete if its only energy source is intermittent and unreliable wind and solar.

# Western Europeans and we in N America are bullying African countries and demanding that they run their lifestyles and GDP growth by our rules, values, and political wishes. We arrive with a superior attitude and then act shocked when those nations do not kneel in gratitude.

Teirigi Ciccones

https://www.academia.edu/76462465/The_Purposeful_Impoverishment_of_African_Nations

G7 must stop denying Africa financing for coal powered energy! The COP26 Plan to Keep Africa Poor
We want to help with climate change, but our lives and economies depend on fossil fuels.

 

A woman and her children live near a closed coal mine in Emalahleni, South Africa, June 2. PHOTO: SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS

Economist leading story

Africa will only be better if it has more energy for electricity.

In Africa, the problem is how to generate more energy. Average consumption per person in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, is a mere 185 kilowatt-hours (kWh) a year, compared with about 6,500kWh in Europe and 12,700kWh in America. An American fridge uses more electricity than a typical African person. Low energy use is a consequence of poverty, but it is also a cause of it. If Africa is to grow richer, it will need to use a lot more energy, including fossil fuels.

Yet its efforts to do so put it on a collision course with hypocritical rich countries. The rich world is happy to import fossil fuels for its use, while at the same time restricting public financing for African gas projects intended for domestic use. “Is the West saying Africa should remain undeveloped?” fumes Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Ghana’s energy minister.

To be sure, clean-energy technologies are a huge opportunity for the continent. They are already the primary sources of power for 22 of Africa’s 54 countries. But to hope Africa can rely on renewables alone to boost consumption is naive. Take electricity, a power source that is still unavailable to some 590m people, or about half of sub-Saharan Africans.

What electricity there is, is unreliable and costly. Adjusted for purchasing power, households in many African countries pay higher rates than those in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries. In research published in 2019, Energy for Growth, a think-tank, noted that 78% of African firms experienced power cuts in the past year, while 41% said electricity was a major constraint. Many businesses and well-off households rely on generators. These have total capacity than in sub-Saharan Africa’s installed renewables.

 https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/11/03/africa-will-remain-poor-unless-it-uses-more-energy

"COAL FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE.."

Coal is not a dirty fuel compared with dung and other solid fuels.  Research confirms: Electric cookstoves reduce energy consumption and CO2 by 95%compared with traditional wood fuel cookstoves.

Therefore it is a mistake to think voting for a G7 rethink Petition is choosing between the climate and economic efficiency:

"900 million households have no alternative to wood or manure for cooking, which is labor intensive, time-consuming, harm respiratory health, and causes massive deforestation and vast amounts of CO2.

You can honestly say that by building coal-powered stations in Africa, you can reduce CO2 emissions!"

Developing nations depend on cheap and reliable coal power to produce electricity, create jobs, and lift billions out of poverty.

"Electricity means life is better. And 80% of that better life in South Africa is from coal.  Yet, across Africa, 600 million lack access to electricity today. As a result, they are condemned to the worst environmental harm in the world from cooking and heating with dung and solid fuels, according to the WHO.

G7 cannot justify curtailing fossil fuel development in Africa when the alternative is solid fuel cooking and heating using dung and wood chips, which emit double the pollution and Greenhouse gases, as does coal power grid deployment. 

African nations must be allowed to develop cheap and reliable fossil fuel resources, especially coal, to help bring electricity to 600 million living in the dark and lift their people out of poverty, African governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous conferences.

Pressure to leave hydrocarbons in the ground has been weakened this year by the disruption following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that led to a surge in energy prices and pushed inflation to multi-decade highs.

But the recent G7 climate policy for Africa is ugly as it attempts to deny access to capital for coal power by the climate-obsessed bureaucracies in international financial institutions and government aid agencies like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and USAID.

COP27 proves that UN policies are intended to keep the poor poor, denying them access to fossil fuels.

COAL IS THE PRIME ENERGY SOURCE IN THE WORLD AND GROWING

 

“The share of low carbon fuels (nuclear, hydro, wind & solar) peaked at 36% in 1995, coinciding with COP1 [the first UN conference of parties].”

“Over the following 17 years, from 1996 to 2012, fossil fuels gained share, mainly due to the increased share of gas and the declining share of nuclear and hydro. As wind and solar then became significant, this trend reversed.

“Despite this, and the hosting of twenty-seven UN climate conferences, the share of electricity generation by low carbon fuels in 2022 was only roughly equivalent to the peak in 1995.”
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its Coal Market Update, coal demand for power generation and steel making ”reached a new all-time high in 2022.” IEA added, “Coal trade in 2023 is heading back to 2019 volumes.”

IEA noted, “Despite lukewarm economic prospects, global supplies grew by 8% in 2022 to a record 8 634 Mt. The three largest producers – China, India, and Indonesia – each reached all-time highs in 2022. Coal production was mainly boosted by China and India, which rapidly increased domestic production to mitigate exposure to high market prices after a first price spike in October 2021.”

THE REASON COAL IS KING IS BECAUSE IT IS CHEAP, PLENTIFUL AND RELIABLE UNLIKE WIND AND SOLAR.

 

As a Senegalese entrepreneur, I can tell you what’s holding Africa back: lack of affordable energy. We live on a continent where the average annual income is less than $2,000, and the majority of people rely on fossil fuels for survival. The climate goals wealthy nations demanded at the recent COP26 summit aren’t only absurd, they are a death sentence for Africans.

In recent decades, China’s citizens have moved from poor to middle class. India has improved the situation of the poor with a booming high-tech industry. Africa remains stuck at the bottom of almost every developmental index. More than 7% of children in sub-Saharan Africa die before they turn 5. Immediate implementation of the environmental concerns of developed nations isn’t Africa’s most urgent priority.

 
China has committed to carbon neutrality by 2060, a target that is ambitious but possible thanks to its newfound prosperity. But Beijing has the autonomy to set a timeline consistent with its economic-development goals. This isn’t true in many African nations. They receive a significant portion of their national budgets from foreign aid—more than half in some cases—leaving them largely dependent on the whims of donors.

That's why it was chilling when a coalition of 250 Western organizations, including Oxfam, began lobbying to halt the use and production for fossil fuels in Africa. They oppose the construction of an oil pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania. More than 700 million African homes rely on biomass (mostly charcoal) for indoor cooking. It is too great a step for Africa to give up fossil fuels now.

 
Solar panels in the Sahara may seem a lovely vision, but they won’t provide energy for 700 million women to cook across the continent. The priority should be to give Africans cleaner fossil fuels such as propane, or electricity generated by natural gas, for at least the next few decades so they can avoid the effects of burning charcoal, coal and diesel in their small homes.

If the U.S. and the European Union refuse to support an increase in Africa’s power supply, China will. Already 30% of new power plants in Africa are built by Chinese contractors controlled by the Communist government. Some of these are heavily polluting coal plants.

Africans deserve prosperity as much as everyone else, but we can’t get there without significant increases in power generation. A forced and hasty shift away from fossil fuels would cripple the continent’s economies. Not long ago, it was popular to discuss whether trade or foreign aid would help Africa most. The world’s activists now focus on climate instead of inequity, and serious concern about the condition of African people has vanished.

Africans know they are vulnerable to the effects of climate change and will be among the first to suffer. But none of the bold ambitions of climate activists will be achieved without lifting Africans out of poverty first. We Africans are willing to do our share to help fight climate change. We don’t want to pay with our lives.

Ms. Wade is founder of SkinIsSkin.com, director of the Africa Center for Prosperity at the Atlas Network, and a board member of Conscious Capitalism, Inc.

WSJ

Climate change rules only keep Africa poor by denying easy access to abundant, reliable and cost effective fossil fuel especially coal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Africa suffers the poverty of living without electricity unavailable to millions living in the dark off the grid and risks devastating ill health and death from solid fuels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An American fridge uses more electricity than a typical African person. Low energy use is a consequence of poverty, but it is also a cause of it. If Africa is to grow richer, it will need to use a lot more energy, including fossil fuels.

“Energy poverty is the biggest challenge facing the world today. While many in the West take reliable energy for granted, millions in developing countries lack access to electricity. We must reject climate policies that limit access to affordable, reliable energy.”

Vijay Jayaraj

 

Government by press release without representation.

FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters) in a communique, which Reuters saw and reported on earlier, the Group of Seven nations - the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan - plus the European Union said: "international investments in unabated coal must stop now."

Critics of the G7 (Group of Seven) have raised various concerns and criticisms about the decisions made by the group over the years. Here are a few examples:

Lack of representation: One common criticism of the G7 is that it is an exclusive group of wealthy, advanced economies. Critics argue that the group needs to adequately represent the diversity of global interests, particularly the perspectives and priorities of developing countries.

Limited impact: Another criticism of the G7 is that its decisions and actions have little effect on global issues. It represents only a tiny portion of the world's population and economy. Critics argue that the G7's decisions often need to be more narrowly focused on the interests of its member countries rather than taking a broader, more inclusive approach to global challenges.

Lack of accountability: Some critics have argued that the G7 operates with limited transparency and accountability, with decisions often made behind closed doors and without input from outside stakeholders. Critics say that this lack of transparency makes it difficult to assess the effectiveness of the G7's decisions and actions and to hold the group accountable for its commitments. ChatGPC

Billions face starvation with net-zero energy policies -climate experts warn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like an oversized 'dog in the manger,' the West tries to bully Africa into relying only on unreliable wind and solar, without fossil fuels and reliable coal power.  The G7 must back off this devastating and immoral policy against Africans.

The erratic nature of wind and solar makes them totally unsuitable for grid supply.

Everywhere where wind and solar have infected grids that were once run by dispatchable coal, gas and nuclear, the grids have become expensive to run, unpredictable and now have built-in unreliability.

 

G7 urged Africa to seek financing for intermittent and unreliable wind and solar rather than develop coal power.  This is impossible as these renewables need coal and other fossil fuels for backup or storage.

 

 

Unfounded climate rules are the barrier to essential energy reform in Africa.

"The long-term nature of climate is ignored & distorted by a fake climate crisis by the UN - when there is no crisis of runaway global warming. Earth has been cooling for 50m yrs & we are in an ice age." Clack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"However, over the past 50 years celebrating Earth Day has been used to celebrate pseudo-scientific and anti-humanist use of natural resources."

This isn't very honest because the West industrialized predominantly with coal. Further, hitting African energy development is immoral in the face of the West reopening shuttered coal plants to meet the energy crisis triggered by Russia's diabolical war against Ukraine. 

“When women are economically or socially empowered, they’re likely to spend less time in front of the hearth, or cooking, because instead they’re in school or working in the formal sector.”

"So when Europeans impose green energy policies on Africa, they do it with total ignorance of the Sleeping Giant. And by their total ignorance of condemning coal and nuclear energy, they condemn 1,4 billion people to a future of poverty when the majority of those 1,4 billion people do not use so much as one light bulb`s worth of electricity."

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/05/putting-coal-into-the-african-perspective/

Africa has no business honoring any deal agreed upon at the #COP27; stats are crystal clear; we haven’t been polluting the globe and shouldn’t be asked to pay the price. Africa needs to industrialize using every single energy source available to us. #EnergySecurity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notwithstanding > 3 trillion climate change subsidies, Coal power remains and increases as the most efficient backup to renewables intermittency.

Our message to the G7 is back off this odious climate policy denying capital to Africa for coal power. Let the free market work in energy in Africa as it does in the United States and Europe. 

Poland told the EU, "The climate rules make the poor poorer." The G7 blocking financing coal does likewise.

Back Off, Oh Masters of the Universe

"Leave us alone, to prosper or not, as a result of our own choices; as a result of our actions; in the exercise of our own requisite and fundamental responsibility.

Please leave us alone. Or reap the whirlwind. And watch the terrible destruction of what you purport to save in consequence."

Make the poor rich, and the planet will improve. Or at least get out of their way while they try to make themselves rich. Make the poor poorer – and this is the concrete plan, remember – and things will get worse, perhaps worse beyond imagining. Observe the chaos in Sri Lanka if you need proof."

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

“Sub-Saharan Africa is at the brink of a coal boom,” says Steckel. “This is partly driven by a ramping-up of Chinese and Indian investments after the domestic market for coal-fired plants is becoming increasingly saturated.” Plants with a total capacity of about one gigawatt are currently under construction, and others with 30 gigawatts are planned. Household air pollution effects ever, half of the latter are now shelved."
 
 By
Paul Burkhardt
July 7, 2022, at 9:00 PM PDT

In the rolling hills of South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, hundreds of builders, welders, and engineers are putting the final touches on a gigantic new power station set to burn as much as 15 million tons of coal a year until it is eventually shuttered in 2073. 

The 4,800-megawatt, dry-cooled Kusile plant and the almost identical Medupi facility, completed last year, will be vital to meeting energy demand in a country plagued by rolling blackouts since 2008. Environmentalists, however, caution that their continued operation will be a significant impediment to South Africa meeting its commitment to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions on a net basis by 2050. 

Coal prospects report for Africa show an exciting future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION IS FROM FOSSIL FUELS NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.

 

Last week, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said the world is now “transitioning to coal.”

Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar‘s energy minister, says: “Many countries, particularly in Europe, which had been strong advocates of green energy and carbon-free future have made a sudden and sharp U-turn. Today, coal burning is again rising, reaching its highest levels since 2014.”  THE WORLD IS "TRANSITIONING TO COAL."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Africa intends to ramp up access to grid electricity with new power plants and reduce adverse effects for 600 million living off the grid in the dark. Household smoke from solid fuel cooking is "the world's deadliest environmental problem." China has invested heavily in new coal power development for Africa recently. 

However, the West is interfering hugely with the African energy policy by the G7 conspiring in 2021 to block the financing of cheap and plentiful coal power for Africa as a climate push. .G7 conspires to single out Africa alone and block financing of coal power for the grid.

This decision is unethical and hypocritical.  Millions in Africa suffer the worst environmental harm in the world because they use solid fuels such as dung, charcoal, and wood for cooking and heating.  The only way to save lives is to finance much-needed coal power for rural electrification.

Developing nations need expanded coal mining to produce electricity, create jobs, and lift billions out of poverty.

But they are denied access to capital by the climate-obsessed bureaucracies in international financial institutions and government aid agencies like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and USAID.

This isn't very good, mainly because the West industrialized predominantly with coal.

The reality is coal is the cheapest and best path to electricity for millions because there are significant problems with solar and wind as alternatives. The irony of the bad G7 policy is that Europe increasingly depends on coal from Africa in the foolish dash to net zero.

ENERGY MARKET REPORT

Other European nations, lacking coal reserves (or unwilling to reopen long-shuttered coal mines), are now actively seeking to purchase African coal – despite decades of demanding that Africans eschew all fossil fuel development (and refusing to provide financing). Tanzanian coal executive Rizwan Ahmed says, “European players, after the Russian war, are going to any place where there is coal.  They are offering to pay excellent prices.”

Jan Dieleman, who runs Cargill’s ocean transportation division, adds, "Europe should be able to source coal, and we will see powerful flows into Europe from Colombia, South Africa, and even further away.” 

The European demand for coal is so great that land-locked Botswana can now sell its coal on the seaborne market. As Minergy CEO Morné du Plessis explains, “Earlier, the logistics would kill us. However, at current prices, we can make this thing work.”

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/11/01/king_coal-cat_meows_i_got_a_few_lives_left_862442.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to end the discrimination. Global energy policy is reset by the ugly  Russian war making energy independence the new priority. Standing Up to Putin Means Ditching Net-Zero  As a result, nations are scrambling for more oil, gas, and coal energy and fewer renewables.   Therefore, it is time to take a second look at earlier G7 policies slamming the door to fossil fuel financing for rural electrification in Africa as a climate push. Renewables are failing to be transition fuels because of intermittency without battery storage.

THE EAST SLAMS THE WESTS CLIMATE COLONIALISM

Sadly, recent radical climate alarmists are following the G7 attack on reliable energy from oil and coal but seeking a more immediate and extreme end to fossil fuel power in Africa. Germany’s Fridays For Future Spokesperson Luis Neubauer  “We’re Planning How To Blow Up” African Oil Pipeline! By P Gosselin on 14. June 2022 Reversing this harmful G7 energy policy will increase reliability and much-needed rural electrification in

Africa. White activists kicking Africans in the face?

We assume that Luisa and her crazed FFF radical group would be content to see poor Africans be denied even just a tiny fraction of the pampered life she is privileged to follow. She tells of the pipeline in the video: We’re going to stop that one.”

Radical white eco-fanatics of the FFF planning how to blow up a major oil pipeline in Africa.

Everything has changed after Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine.The dilemma for the West: energy independence is the new priority and - 

You can't have energy security with an economy powered intermittently by wind and solar.

"Many countries now see coal as the most practical and speedy solution to energy independence.  Yet developed nations slap Africa in the face with the G7 edict to deny financing coal power development. The Rich World's Climate Hypocrisy policy against coal-powered energy. WSJ

“We will need it [coal] until we find alternative sources. Until then, even the greenest government will not phase out coal,” Václav Bartuška, the Czech Republic’s energy security commissioner, told news outlet Seznam Zprávy.

Coal makes a comeback as the best response to war.

 See also -  RURAL ELECTRIFICATION SOCIETY http://www.rgesocity.org.

The East Slams the West’s Climate ‘Colonialism’  discriminating in financing much-needed power plants using reliable fossil fuels, especially coal. The G7 handicaps rural electrification in Africa and developing nations by denying coal power, yet continues to depend on five times more on coal than renewables at home.  It is immoral climate colonialism and devastating for millions living without reliable electricity from fossil fuels in Africa, India, and Asia. “The colonial mindset hasn’t gone,”  "Attempts are made to shut the path of resources for developing nations to which developed nations reached where they are today." Modi - Indian PM. India depends on cheap, plentiful coal power for electricity, and the US also gains from significant coal power plants. Bloomberg reported on April 25: “The world’s addiction to coal, a fuel many thought would soon be on the way out, is now stronger than ever. In 2021 the world generated more electricity from coal than ever before, with an increase of 9 percent.”

  Denying coal power to Africa is hypocrisy Mothers do manual work for hours, children lack electricity to do their homework, and industries suffer breakdowns in production and lose millions of dollars from unreliable power. Cooking outdoors with solid fuels is today's most devastating environmental problem, killing millions annually, according to the WHO. It is time to stop the hypocrisy of the West and G7 denying the most valuable contribution to their economic well-being - reliable electricity.  America’s Secret Energy Source: Coal   

China and India are given a pass under the Paris Accord GHG targets, and they take advantage to push massive increases in coal power development.  Yet, Africa has a stronger case and is denied international financing. G7 action is inhuman and immoral, whatever you think about the validity of climate change fears and UN predictions.  

The science of climate change has yet to be settled, and many extensive peer-reviewed papers find invalid the theory that CO2 plant food is a so-called invisible greenhouse gas that spews heat back into the atmosphere like a Chinese Dragon. The claim lacks integrity and has often been debunked as defying fundamental physics entropy and common sense. ABSTRACT: Because of this lack of tangible evidence, it is time to acknowledge that the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact are based on meritless conjectures. Dr. Gehard Gramm et al. The reality is that CO2 is the invisible nontoxic air we exhale at 40,000 ppm with every breath and is a miracle molecule vital to the growth of plants through photosynthesis.  

CO2 is wholly beneficial. The earth is not a greenhouse.  

However, this petition is just as relevant to those who fully endorse the greenhouse gas effect and human-caused climate change, thinking  CO2 is harmful. The real issue is ending reliance in Africa on dirty solid fuels (dung, wood, and charcoal) with grid electricity. Any progress in this direction will be an immediate cutback in greenhouse gas emissions and a favorable climate push.

"Extreme weather and climate events must be dealt with independently of the AGW issue.  The world has always suffered from weather and climate extremes, and it always will; this will not change with further warming or with emissions reductions.

COP27

The policy implications of all this are enormous.  Unfortunately, I suspect that the COP27 will focus too much on emissions reductions (which aren’t working and won't impact the climate in any event) and not enough on supporting development and adaptation for developing countries and, most notably supporting development in Africa by allowing them to benefit from their fossil fuels (other than by selling them to Europe).  With regards to the latter, a shout out to Rose Mustiso’s recent Nature publication; Rose is my favorite African activist and thinker on this topic."

Dr. Judith Curry 

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/03/the-climate-crisis-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/