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course. and i think the question that i haven t that i m confronted with often by other leaders in africa is why are you asking us to provide you with fossil fuels when what we actually want to do is have a different development pathway. that s about decentralised, renewable energy. and scaling it up. why is it that so little amount of funding is going to renewables in africa? and that is a problem because then, just perpetuates the same model of an extract of this development model where fossil fuels come to the north and we use them and continue to do what we re doing, right? so instead, we are working on partnerships, with just are working on partnerships, withjust done are working on partnerships, with just done with colombia where we say ok, on eye level, what are you looking for? what kinds of local value creation can we have in your country? what kind ofjob training? were doing this with tenure. in order to provide those jobs, together renewables moving so you can become the cro
working on partnerships. we ve just done one with colombia where we say, ok, on eye level, what are you looking for? what kind of local value creation can we have in your country? what kind ofjob training? we re doing this with kenya, with president ruto, in order to provide those jobs, get the renewables moving, so you can become an expert in green hydrogen. yeah. and they want a clean future. they do. ..but they re saying, in the meantime, we cannot industrialise our countries without using the fossil fuels that we have discovered. i want to put to you this point, same point, by an international energy agency report last year. it said that africa s industrialisation, it says, relies in part on expanding its natural gas use. and even if it were to expand all the gas resources that have been discovered to date, it would only result in 0.5% increase in global carbon emissions.