Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity
BEIJING – As South Africa prepares to take over the G20’s rotating presidency, its government has vowed to make 2025 the “year of Africa.” At the same time, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil (COP30) will serve as a litmus test for global climate action, revealing how much progress the world’s largest polluters have made in fulfilling their commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions and provide climate finance to developing countries.
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Elizabeth Corey, et al. consider whether the populist “new right” in America, Europe, and elsewhere is here to stay. Given that Africa accounts for just 4% of global GHG emissions and bears little historical responsibility for climate change, the continent has understandably been reluctant to embrace the net-zero agenda. As the UN Economic Commission for Africa noted in its latest State of the Climate in Africa Report, what African........
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