Africa’s energy transition involves complex trade-offs.

For many African nations, mitigating the threat of climate change while pursuing socio-economic development and widespread prosperity for citizens will involve complex trade-offs.

The continent has a large and young population, generally unemployed or underemployed, which will need sustained economic growth to achieve development goals – growth which will need to occur simultaneously with climate change adaptation and mitigation. .

Although these two efforts are inextricably linked, they are rarely analyzed simultaneously in academic research.