Carlos Lopes

A New Path for U.S.-Africa Climate Relations

Energy, Environment and Climate Change /

The world faces simultaneous challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic: economic downturn and increasing impacts of climate change, all of which are exacerbating ongoing global inequity. Full economic recovery hinges upon the world’s ability to address these interconnected challenges everywhere. World leaders have committed nearly $13 trillion to address COVID-19 and economic crisis, and even in […]

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Europe and Africa need to see eye to eye on climate change

Environment and Climate Change, Africa Europe Relationship /

By Carlos Lopes, Professor at the University of Cape Town and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Africa’s most important priority is energy. Clean energy transitions will affect the African continent differently from industrialised regions, such as Europe. Diversifying the energy mix should not trump the need to reduce

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Not your typical Billionaire : Strive Masiyiwa my 2020 African hero.

Demographic Change, African Politics /

I first met Strive Masiyiwa in Harare in the late 1990s. His wife, Tsitsi, was leading a local branch of a United Nations entrepreneurial programme that fell within my supervisory responsibilities. It was a period in which Strive was fighting – that is the most accurate word – to establish his telecoms company, Econet. Read

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Construire un partenariat d’égal à égal UE-Afrique

Africa Europe Relationship /

Alors que l’accord Union Européenne ACP est en voie de reconduction pour 20 ans selon des dispositions encore peu publiques, l’économiste Carlos Lopes, professeur à la Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance de l’Université du Cap, haut représentant de l’Union africaine pour les partenariats avec l’Europe, appelle à un partenariat d’égal à égal. L’ancien secrétaire

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Le Choix décisif de l’Afrique

Industrialisation and Trade, Structural Transformation /

L’Afrique étant secouée par de multiples crises cette année, les gouvernements de la région devront orienter leurs réponses politiques non seulement vers la reprise à court terme, mais aussi vers la durabilité et la résilience à long terme. L’Afrique ne peut tout simplement pas se permettre d’investir davantage dans l’économie sale, inefficace et fragile du

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Africa’s fateful choice

Industrialisation and Trade, Structural Transformation /

With Africa reeling from multiple crises this year, the region’s governments will have to direct their policy responses not just toward short-term recovery, but also toward long-term sustainability and resilience. Africa simply cannot afford any more investments in the dirty, inefficient, fragile economy of the past. CAPE TOWN – The International Monetary Fund predicts that

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A post-COVID recovery for African cities needs to be inclusive, sustainable and job-rich

Structural Transformation, Urbanization /

Professor Carlos Lopes is a Professor at the Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, and a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. Professor Edgar Pieterse is South African Research Chair on Urban Policy and Director of the African Cities Center at the University of Cape Town. It has

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L’expérience Africaine des Unions Monétaires : leçons, soucis, défis

Planning and Finance /

Avec une masse terrestre de plus de 30 millions de kilomètres carrés, l’Afrique est aussi grande que l’Inde, la Chine, les États-Unis et la plupart des pays européens réunis. Trahie par la projection cartographique de Mercator, la vision commune de la taille du continent a été diminuée, à peu près de la même manière que

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