L’Europa promette 600 miliardi di dollari per progetti di energia pulita in Africa
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-pledges-dollar600-billion-for-clean-energy-projects-in-africa/
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L’Europa promette 600 miliardi di dollari per progetti di energia pulita in Africa
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-pledges-dollar600-billion-for-clean-energy-projects-in-africa/
di ThatBlackGuy_
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* The EU’s Global Gateway plan is challenging China’s Belt and Road Initiative to influence Africa, by providing funding that will expand access to electricity.
* The Chinese funding program has invested over $1.3 trillion in building and operating roads, ports, energy, and telecommunications networks in more than a hundred countries around the world, from Asia to Africa to Latin America.
* The Belt and Road Initiative has provided China with political influence around the world, has tied countries to the Chinese economy and provided a market for Chinese industrial services.
* The Global Gateway, launched in 2021, is the EU’s own attempt to use funding to build influence in regions relevant to its interests – which includes Africa.
* The continent has significant deposits of critical minerals vital for tech and the green transition, such as cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lithium in Zimbabwe, copper in Zambia, and manganese in Gabon. China, with its mining companies, is already very active in these countries.
* A recent report from the energy think tank Ember revealed that China exported 15GW of solar panels to Africa in the year leading up to June 2025, a 60 percent year-on-year increase of such imports.
* Beijing is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s green transition.
* The EU hasn’t been alone in feeling the need to respond to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Before President Donald Trump’s second term, the US had also felt compelled to act.
* The African continent, then, is now a battleground between superpowers interested, first and foremost, in its resources. But with a young and growing population – in the sub-Saharan region, the population will grow by an estimated 79 percent over the next three decades.
* Africa’s decarbonization will be essential to the success of net zero. “The choices Africa makes today are shaping the future of the entire world.”
What about like right here in Europe? Can we not?
Europe and their imperialist shenanigans in 2025
Could it be that Europe is finally starting to develop some sort of geostrategy? Hope to see more of it.
Money that they don’t have
Was slightly flabbergasted by the headline until I clicked through and realised it meant $600 million, not billion.
Wow, this is useless and waste of money.
What about China and India where they are needed most?
There is a very big difference between 600 million and 600 billion
600 bil, huh? Aight, here’s my take. Decades too late but better late than never, right? Money’s not everything tho, gotta have the right mindset too
sending money to corrupt countries!
i would rather they spend about 300 million on connecting european grid with north african grid. and then spend some money on renewables so europe can also benefit fom the power generated. agreed the power cables will cost about 0.5 to 1 billion but it goes back into european economy so not a bad deal
wait wait whose money is this gonna be exactly and did we consent to this?
We shouldn’t be spending a single eurocent on other continents as long as there is a single european homeless, hungry or sick, a single european country, city or village underdeveloped, a single pothole.
We legit should’ve pumped these € into green energy years ago. Too many folks still don’t accept this isn’t about “saving the Earth” – Earth will be fine, it’s humanity that’s screwed.
“I use pledge and ~~donation~~ investing* synonymous with one another”
Okay but why
They meant Zimbabwe dollars, clearly
Tone-deaf crap like this is why far-right parties are gaining momentum every year.
Why?
It’s a joke with the problems we have in not exceeding 3 percent we give them 600 billion well so much the better for them and too bad for us
More money to go to pockets and never the countries people or infrastructure
Even at 600 million, do we not have anything better to spend the money on here in Europe? We have hundreds of thousands of homeless people living here.