{"id":278835,"date":"2025-11-23T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278835\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:29:10","slug":"eu-pledges-e7-billion-to-renewable-energy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278835\/","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":278836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3711,8790,114066,1397,27422,591,114065,114064,50857,12636,90,4247,56,54,55,43025],"class_list":["post-278835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-africa","tag-cities","tag-development-bank","tag-environment","tag-equality","tag-europe","tag-g-20","tag-global-citizen","tag-johannesburg","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-south-africa","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}