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Vol 65 No 23

Published 15th November 2024


Guinea Bissau

PROFILE: Carlos Lopes: A leading climate voice

A prominent voice on trade, economics, and climate change, Carlos Lopes, is known for his competence and combative nature. As the African Union’s chief negotiator on what became the Samoa Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Community and the European Union, the Bissau-Guinean economist and former head of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa ruffled feathers among the European Commission’s team. Lopes had wanted the AU to ditch the ACP – which relies almost entirely on EU funding – and negotiate a continent-to-continent deal with Brussels but was outmanoeuvred by EU officials and African leaders who preferred the ‘donor-recipient’ status quo.

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