"At a time when several African countries are preparing to exploit their significant gas resources, the end of funding for the gas sector, on the pretext that gas is a fossil fuel, without taking into account the fact that it is also and above all a clean energy, would bear a fatal cost to our economies in search of emergence, "Sall said at a Sino-African Cooperation Forum (Focac) organized outside Dakar.
"Blocking the financing of the gas sector is adding a great economic injustice to the climate injustice that Africa suffers more than all the other continents", he insisted.
Senegal, a poor country in West Africa, places a lot of hope in the future exploitation of the gas and oil fields discovered in the Atlantic in recent years.
It plans to produce its first barrels at the end of 2023 or in 2024.
The Senegalese president, who has vowed to put his country on the path to emergence, is alarmed at the commitment announced during the recent COP26 climate conference by some twenty States, including the United States and the United States. France.
They intend to put an end by the end of 2022 to the financing of fossil energy projects abroad without carbon capture techniques.
The final declaration of COP26 also refers to the "exit" from "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies.
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