CO2 levels unprecedented rise

[pjclarke]

To hit those agreed targets the final usage of fossil fuels in 35 years tine needs to be 20% of what it is TODAY!

That's with another 2 billion people on the planet where 2 thirds of the current population don't even have electricity.
Where in large swathes of Africa unborn babies routinely die because of minor complications not discovered until too late because there isn't enough electricity to operate the ultrasound scans routinely - they're used after the problem has become apparent.

Man made or not, 'catastrophic' or not, real or not - doubling down on fossil fuel usage is the only way forwards.

Development, yes, fossils, well, not so much. The challenge in Africa, especially sub-Saharan is the large distances you'd have to transmit electricity from centralised generation plants to remote villages. It makes sense in densely populated urban regions, but that describes a small proportion of the continent; most settlements are better suited to local and small-scale solar, wind, geothermal and hydro. Check out the graph here

Rabett Run: Does Africa Need Telephone Poles

And this from the IEA report Energy Outlook for Africa.

New hydropower capacity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Guinea, among others, plays a major role in bringing down the region’s average costs of power supply, reducing the share of oil-fired power. Other renewables, led by solar technologies, make a growing contribution to supply, with a successful auction-based procurement programme in South Africa showing how this can be achieved cost effectively. Geothermal becomes the second-largest source of power supply in East Africa, mainly in Kenya and Ethiopia. Two-thirds of the mini-grid and off-grid systems in rural areas in 2040 are powered by solar photovoltaics, small hydropower or wind. As technology costs come down, the attraction of renewable systems versus diesel generators grows (although they are often used in combination), especially where financing is available to cover the higher upfront expense.

[2uk]

You should start having sex with amphibians to prepare for the species that will spawn from you after your island has gone under water. Of course you can come to mainland and become a work slave as another option.

[NigelJK]

Or The Continental Desert as we'll call it from Tropical Britain.