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The Climate Question: What should Africa do with its fossil fuel reserves?

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24/10/2022 GMT

What should Africa do with its fossil fuel reserves?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, What should Africa do with its fossil fuel reserves?

Controversy over plans to build an oil pipeline through East Africa.

We examine the controversy over plans to build an oil pipeline through East Africa.

Africa accounts for around 10 per cent of the world's known fossil-fuel reserves. But plans to build an oil pipeline through East Africa to transport hundreds of thousands of barrels a day have been condemned by the European Union.  

The pipeline, which runs from the source in Uganda to the Tanzanian coast, will generate billions of dollars a year. But critics say it will release tens of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 

In this programme we hear from the people involved in the fight over the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, and find out if they think it will go ahead. 

Presenters Dickens Olewe and Graihagh Jackson are joined by 

Faten Aggad, Senior Advisor on Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics at the African Climate Foundation 

Tony Tiyou, Founder and CEO of Renewables in Africa 

Brian, climate campaigner

  

Email us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com 

  

Reporter: Aboubakar Famau, BBC Swahili 
Researcher: Natasha Fernandes 
Producer: Lily Freeston 
Series Producer: Alex Lewis 
Editor: Clare Fordham 
Production Coordinators: Helena Warwick-Cross, Siobhan Reed 
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignall

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