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Faten Aggad
Faten Aggad is a senior advisor on climate diplomacy at the African Climate Foundation (the foundation funds part of The Continent’s journalism)
Africa may lose $25bn annually to EU carbon border tax
Carbon tax measures will remain so African countries need to develop green industrialisation with support for this through investments
Africa is the recipient of collateral damage in the politics of climate change wrangling
The EU, US and China wield the most carbon emissions, yet Africa is left paying the price, again. The continent needs to build its own resilience to combat a declining economy.
Africa’s digital transformation risks becoming trapped in geopolitical competition
As China and the West battle it out for control of Africa’s physical and virtual digital infrastructure, the continent needs to assert its own voice