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An association of elderly people appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.The other two climate cases filed in Strasbourg are inadmissible

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Last week, a summit was held in Paris on how to enable low-income countries most exposed to the impacts of the climate crisis to grow their economies by reducing their dependence on fossil fuels [we'll talk about it in detail later]. What can the 54 countries of the African continent do to contribute to the decarbonisation of the world?Can Africa make a leap in quality and combine energy transition and economic growth?These are the questions that the journalist of New York Times, Somini Sengupta, he addressed to Wanjira Mathai, director general for Africa and global partnerships at the World Resources Institute (WRI), and Rebekah Shirley, senior environmental researcher and deputy director for Africa at WRI. These two simple questions opened up deeper questions having to do with the financial sustainability of the energy transition, the capacity of the electricity grid and...