Liberia, April 15 -- By Nemenlah Cyrus Harmon, New Narratives climate correspondent

On the busy roads of this capital city, something is changing. Alongside the old pickup trucks and exhaust-spewing taxis, a quieter kind of vehicle has appeared: electric cars, motorcycles and three-wheeled tricycles that hum instead of roar. They charge on electricity instead of burning gasoline and leave no black smoke trailing behind them.

The electric vehicles are already here. But the rules to govern them and the infrastructure to expand uptake are not. And that is holding us back and continuing to make the economy vulnerable to global oil shocks like the one caused now by the US/Israel war on Iran.

"E-mobility in Liberia has been on a very slow pa...