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With funds short, Africans weigh green energy switch and fossil fuel cash

Smoke and steam billow from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, at night near Belchatow, Poland December 5, 2018. [Reuters, Kacper Pempel]

As crucial UN climate change negotiations get underway in Glasgow, seeking steep global emissions cuts to protect people and nature, many African nations - relatively tiny contributors to the problem - find themselves in an unusual position.

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