Carlos Lopes, COP30 Special Envoy for Africa, is chair of the African Climate Foundation Board and a professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town. This article is provided by Project Syndicate (PS).
Oct 25 , 2025 . By Carlos Lopes
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) will be the first to ta...
Oct 30 , 2022 . By Carlos Lopes
Despite contributing the least to global warming, Africa is the continent most vulner...
Apr 30 , 2022 . By Carlos Lopes
The pandemic wreaked havoc on African economies, hampering GDP growth and straining g...
Nov 6 , 2021 . By Carlos Lopes and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
The Pandora Papers, the largest investigative effort yet to shed light on the world of offshore finance,...
Feb 15 , 2020 . By Carlos Lopes
African heads of state are convening at the annual African Union (AU) summit, and issues related to the c...
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The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politicall...
May 2 , 2026
By the time Ethiopia's National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) reached the end of its fir...
Apr 25 , 2026
In a political community, official speeches show what governments want their citizens...
For much of the past three decades, Ethiopia occupied a familiar place in the Western...