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Carlos Lopes

Carlos Lopes

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Carlos Lopes, a professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, is a member of the World Resources Institute’s Board and Chair of the African Climate Foundation Board.

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  1. How Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Could Help Africa
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    How Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Could Help Africa

    May 1, 2023 Carlos Lopes urges the European Union to consider African economies’ unique challenges when implementing its border tariff.

  2. Helping Middle-Income Energy Exporters Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit
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    Helping Middle-Income Energy Exporters Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit

    Jan 27, 2023 Carlos Lopes explains what it will take for resource-rich economies to diversify and develop new revenue sources.

  3. The Rich World’s Empty Climate Promises
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    The Rich World’s Empty Climate Promises

    Apr 29, 2022 Carlos Lopes highlights just how meager international financial support for adaptation and mitigation in Africa has been.

  4. Africa Must Lead on Capital Flight
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    Africa Must Lead on Capital Flight

    Nov 3, 2021 Carlos Lopes & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira lament policymakers' lack of initiative in combating one of the continent's most serious problems.

  5. Building an EU-Africa Partnership of Equals
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    Building an EU-Africa Partnership of Equals

    Dec 4, 2020 Carlos Lopes emphasizes the lessons and objectives that should guide coming efforts to reframe the relationship.

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    China Is Better Prepared Than America for a Divorce

    Keyu Jin shows how the country has been reorienting and even expanding its global economic footprint.
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    Digital Financial Inclusion Strengthens Climate Resilience

    Ellen Jackowski calls for reducing the number of unbanked people and building digital infrastructure in vulnerable communities.
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    The High Cost of South Korea’s Short-Lived Martial Law

    Takatoshi Ito

    Even as South Korea was plunged into political turmoil following the president’s short-lived declaration of martial law, financial markets have remained calm. But the country still has months of political uncertainty ahead, leaving it in a weak position to respond to US policy changes when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

     argues that while markets shrugged off the recent turmoil, the episode could have long-lasting consequences.
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    Did Mexico Help Trump Get Elected?

    Jorge G. Castañeda speculates that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador used migration flows to influence the US election.
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    How the EU Can Scale Up Carbon Removal

    Ludovic Chatoux & Sophia Escheu urge European policymakers to use regulation to increase investment in this crucial green technology.
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    The Way Forward in Syria

    Carl Bildt urges all parties involved to support the political roadmap that the United Nations adopted in 2015.
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    Crime Is Punishing Latin America’s Economies

    Nathalie Alvarado & Ana María Ibáñez explain how the problem acts as a tax on development – one that the region can no longer afford to pay.
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    China’s New Social Contract

    Ana Palacio highlights a fundamental shift in priorities brought about by slowing growth and changing public expectations.
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    The Energy Transition That Couldn’t

    Richard Haass & Carolyn Kissane

    Dominant intellectual frameworks persist until their limitations in describing reality become undeniable, paving the way for a new paradigm. The idea that the world can and will replace fossil fuels with renewables has reached that point.

     argue that replacing fossil fuels with renewables is an idea that has exhausted its utility.

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