Global climate discussions afford Africa a chance to exert agency over development

The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27), currently under way in Egypt, hold opportunities for Africa to use the confluence of crises, and its role as host of the COP27, to try to pursue a more ambitious agenda and exercise agency to overcome some of the growth impediments caused by global headwinds and the asymmetries of the international system, University of Cape Town Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance Professor Carlos Lopes said this week. The COP27 discussions are aimed at addressing a major structural fault in the global economy and to ensure that growth and development are sustainable.

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