Uganda President lashes Europe for hypocrisy on its climate and energy policy

Ugandan controversial President Yoweri Museveni has thrown a bombshell at Europe over what he tagged “brazen double standards” towards Africa in its climate and energy policies.


Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni called out Europe for telling Africa not use fossil fuels and they are clamouring for coal-fired power plants in the face of the energy crisis triggered by the Russia-Ukraine invasion.

Museveni said European nations needed to end their “brazen double-standards” and “hypocrisy”,
The brave iconoclast said”We will not accept one rule for them and another rule for us,” and that “Europe’s failure to meet its climate goals should not be Africa’s problem,”.

Museveni’s comments falls in line with warnings from African leaders at COP27 about the damage climate change is already wreaking on the continent.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in February warned that tens of millions of Africans face a future marked by drought, disease and displacement due to global heating.

According to the UN, wealthy nations have failed to provide a pledged $100 billion a year from 2020 to developing nations to help them build resilience and green their economies, reaching just $83 billion.




Earlier this year, France’s TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed a $10-billion agreement to develop Ugandan oilfields and ship the crude through a 1,445-kilometre (900-mile) pipeline to a Tanzanian port on the Indian Ocean.

The project, which includes drilling in Murchison Falls, Uganda’s largest national park, has run into strong opposition from activists and environmental groups that say it threatens the region’s fragile ecosystem and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people.

The European Parliament in September adopted a resolution calling for the project to be delayed over “rights violations”, infuriating Kampala.