Lopes says green energy is the way for Africa's industrialisation, panel explains why
The United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes, has urged African countries to use renewable energy and develop leap-frogging capabilities to ensure that Africa does not commit the same mistakes as developed countries did in their industrialization process. Mr. Lopes was speaking at the opening session of a high-level panel discussion on the theme Greening Africa’s economies to achieve structural transformation: the role of new technologies and innovation held at the weekend in Abuja, Nigeria. The event was held on the margins of the joint ECA-AU Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on the theme: “Industrialization for inclusiveness and Transformative Development in Africa.” He called on a panel of economists, energy specialists, policy makers and development practitioners to speak to some of the challenges that developed countries faced, so as to underscore the key role that renewable energy will play in Africa’s transformation.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2014-03
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31783 |
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