Amidst the backdrop of what is being seen as a belated sense of urgency over climate change evinced at the COP27 Summit now winding down in Egypt, some poor countries, unsurprisingly, continue to dig their heels in, over a belated lobby in the west for further ‘emergency’ cuts in the recovery and use of fossil fuels, ostensibly, as a mechanism to reduce global warming.
Certainly, two East African countries, Uganda and Tanzania, with their own immediate economic needs to consider and now altogether preoccupied with the construction of a pipeline from which oil from Uganda can flow into Tanzania, appear to remain indifferent to the high-profile lobby.
