While Australia and Turkey are still debating the identity of next year’s COP 31 host, the African bloc agreed, on November 11, on the champion of COP 32. If the decision is still to be recorded by heads of state this weekend in Bélem, Brazil, it will be Ethiopia that will host the massive annual environmental summit in 2027. The African Union Headquarters and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, the continent’s diplomatic capital, have all the infrastructure to host a demonstration of this magnitude.
Ethiopia, which for fifteen years has wanted to make energy independence its growth engine, dreams of becoming a leader in the field of renewable energy on the continent. By 2025, the country has
