COMMENTARY: LG shows that eco-friendliness in Africa is achievable, both at energy generation and use

NAIROBI, KENYA: For a continent that contributes least to global environmental degradation, Africa stands to bear the heaviest brunt should current global warming trends be allowed to fester.

As world leaders prepare to put pen to paper on a new set of development goals later this year, concerns are mounting that such ambitions will come to naught if world temperatures are allowed to increase by more than two degrees centigrade. Gains in development made over the past two decades also stand a real chance of being washed away.