{"id":197484,"date":"2025-11-24T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197484\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:13:13","slug":"eu-pledges-e7-billion-to-renewable-energy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197484\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Pledges \u20ac7 Billion to Renewable Energy in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The European Union pledged \u20ac7 billion ($8.1 billion) toward boosting renewable-energy generation and increasing electricity access in Africa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the announcement at an event organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1461720D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Global Citizen<\/a>, a poverty eradication advocacy organization, in Johannesburg on Friday, the day before a meeting of leader of the Group of 20 nations in the city. The pledge is toward the EU\u2019s Scaling Up Renewables in Africa campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union pledged \u20ac7 billion ($8.1 billion) toward boosting renewable-energy generation and increasing electricity access in Africa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[4204,4912,109633,18,440,43771,1015,109632,109631,19,17,12502,961,133,5258,13180],"class_list":{"0":"post-197484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-development-bank","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-equality","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-g-20","16":"tag-global-citizen","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-johannesburg","20":"tag-renewable-energy","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-south-africa","23":"tag-world-bank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115604383674295229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}