RE: Kenya?5 Sep 2023 14:19
Ruto may genuinely have a green agenda, but he'll be aware a little green-washing will go a long way to attracting grants and funding concessions for infrastructure projects. From the World Bank website:
"The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants. The World Bank has 2 goals, end extreme poverty and promote sustainable prosperity."
100% clean energy by 2030? Absurd. Every vehicle on Kenya's roads will be electric by 2030, powered by electricity from non-fossil fuel sources? Where is he going to pull the generation and charging infrastructure from in 6 years? Every Kenyan can afford an electric car? Average annual income in Kenya is less than $7,500. As 2030 approaches, this claim will be clarified as applying only to electricity generation, which, in the U.S., accounts for only 0.6% of oil consumption. Transportation accounts for 70% of consumption, and as Kenya develops, things will be no different. Kenya will be forced to extract and refine their own oil, to keep prices affordable.
Maybe he intends to power the country with the greenest technology available, paid for with exported oil revenue.
The oil is too valuable to leave in the ground. If he doesn't extract it, another administration, under public pressure to tackle poverty, will.