🎬 As African governments impose export bans on critical minerals to capture more local value, @poorvak.bsky.social warns National Security News that such bans do not automatically work as planned.

Watch the full interview 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0X...

Panelists did a wonderful job highlighting 1) commercial logic of clean tech for Indian industry, 2) rapidly evolving EU policy landscape 3) harsh Indian realities of industrial decarbonisation and 4) opportunities for research and innovation through Horizon Europe.

More to come, watch this space!

I moderated a very constructive discussion y’day on EU-India clean-tech co-organised by @ecdpm.org and Embassy of India. Beyond celebrating the FTA - a beacon of hope in current truly precarious times - we discussed nitty-gritty aspects: technical, regulatory, institutional, financial.

The EU and China in Africa: is it better to compete or work together? - PubAffairs Bruxelles In 2024-2025, ECDPM investigated the potential for EU-China cooperation on Africa’s green transition. We concluded that the best course of action for Europe is to strategically assess where, when and ...

#Climate - The #EU and #China in #Africa: Is it better to compete or work together? By @marielladc.bsky.social, @poorvak.bsky.social & Pauline Veron | @ecdpm.org
www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

The EU’s critical raw materials maze: why methodology won’t save the Green Deal - PubAffairs Bruxelles In the context of the EU seeking more strategic autonomy for its green and digital transition, Poorva Karkare explores the recently released special report on critical raw materials by the European Co...

#CRM - The #EU’s critical raw materials maze: why methodology won’t save the Green Deal, by @poorvak.bsky.social | @ecdpm.org
www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

6/6 So what does all of it imply? Well, I'd urge you to have a look at the paper for that and much more!

5/6
-> Interest to develop agriculture value chains raises ? given the consortium’s focus on minerals + limited existing cross-border trade

-> Instead every country looking at its national interests bringing = age old conundrum of regional integration! Limited state capacity is a big culprit here

4/6

-> With significant Chinese presence, Western & Chinese business operations on the ground are highly intertwined, so what geopolitical competition?

-> Having experienced the worst excesses of the Cold War, corridor countries are not interested in taking sides in any sphere of influence

3/6 Our findings?

-> For all the headlines about the Corridor, actual investment figures from the EU (the focus of our paper) are hard to pinpoint.

-> The success of the corridor depends on traffic volumes, and there are quite a few questions, especially on the greenfield Lobito railway line

2/6 In highlighting the big role of the corridor in delivering geopolitical rhetoric, key factors (read commercial viability & political feasibility, beyond just the 'potential') are not critically evaluated. And by not looking at what corridor countries really want, African agency is somehow lost

1/6 We read a LOT to get to this piece of work. The Lobito corridor is often referred to in terms of geostrategic competition with the US-EU on the one side and China on the other, where this rivalry neatly coincides with African economic development interests. Or does it?

📝 Connecting the DRC, Zambia and Angola, the Lobito Corridor is often seen through a West vs China lens, but what is the reality on the ground in terms of real investments, activity and African country interests?

Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4lAPbT3

@poorvak.bsky.social

Rethinking EU partnerships – crafting an attractive offer to the Global South Re-thinking Europe · Episode

🎧 I shared my thoughts with @delorseurope.bsky.social - how can the EU build stronger partnerships to meet its climate goals? spoti.fi/4iFkJFA
🎙️ By Cláudia Azevedo, Colette van der Ven and myself

📚 on CTIPs bit.ly/4j1VDR6
📚 on green iron and steel see @ecdpm.org paper bit.ly/3ZOuD0n

The M23 in eastern DRC: Whose peace is it anyway? – ECDPM The conflict in eastern DRC has been on top of the agenda of last weeks AU summit. Poorva Karake looks at what the current state of affairs means for regional integration, African peace and security s...

Here's my (longish) take on the situation in eastern DRC. Building on our previous work at @ecdpm.org on regional integration, I draw implications for regional peace and security solutions, and broader relations with the EU.

Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4b2dfJw

🎬 Webinar recording now online!

The geography of green iron and steel: Opportunities for Europe and North Africa

Watch in full 👉 bit.ly/4j7U4Sp

@ieefainstitute.bsky.social @agoraind.bsky.social @e3g.bsky.social @amedinil.bsky.social

Join us for an interesting conversation around where and how to place and think about green iron and steel in broader EU-(North Africa) Africa relations. Jan 15, 2025 at 9:30am (CET)

What could green industrialisation imply for the geography of current production in sectors like iron and steel? Could it usher opportunities for industrial partnerships between Europe and (North) Africa? Read our @ecdpm.org discussion paper with @amedinil.bsky.social on this topic for more!

Green industrialisation: Opportunities for developing countries YouTube video by ECDPM

🎬 As part of a new video series featuring ten ECDPM experts on our 2024 highlights, @amedinil.bsky.social gives a brief overview of all the ECDPM work on green industrialisation, and what awaits next year for green industrial partnerships.

👉 youtu.be/-MK0Jvvd5K4

Join us on 15 January 2025 for a discussion with
Behnam Lot, Bellona Europe
Soroush Basirat @ieefainstitute.bsky.social
Zaffar Hussain @agoraind.bsky.social @agoraew.bsky.social, Richard Smith @e3g.bsky.social
@poorvak.bsky.social @ecdpm.org

👉More info and registration link here: lnkd.in/eR_5TWHQ

Thanks Ryan and Tom! Appreciated :)

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s

The Guardian @wendyide.bsky.social is right in giving this extraordinary #documentary 5 stars.

'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'

I was blown away. Exhilarating combi of geopolitics & music, centered around #Congo's independence in 1960. (1/5)🧵

www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

Overcoming the North-South Divide in Global Migration Governance Although migration policy trends in Global North and South countries diverge, the two hemispheres both stand to benefit from a more open labor market and more cohesive global migration governance.

My essay on paradoxes of migration governance between the global north and south has just been published by the @carnegieendow.bsky.social.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...