As climate pledges pile up, a worrying theme is emerging that bold efforts by rich nations to decarbonize the global economy will be ruined by hordes of new consumers in the developing world buying cars, installing air conditioning, and taking planes. China’s and India’s rapid development and steep ...

Excuses easily come out of the human mouth. Let us please transfer all the energy spent on the manufacturing of excuses to create ideas for how we’ll get vaccines to Africa. If Africa can’t get the vaccines it needs, perhaps Africa should take a play from the Indonesian playbook during the 2007 avia...

What assistance comes as a result of Cop26 will be piecemeal, inadequate, and decline in substance as the climate crisis increases in intensity. Africa must continue to demand more.

No previous rule-taker has improved their lot by taking the rules of the international system as they are. Perhaps it's time for Africa to start ignoring economic orthodoxy.