The European Union has an ambitious trillion dollar plan to slash emissions by over 50% from 1990 levels by 2030.
This can present opportunities to African countries... but also threats.
Will it lock African farmers out of EU markets? Will it lock finance out of dirty energy projects too soon?
Zainab Usman of the Carnegie Endowment and Olumide Abimbola of the Africa Policy Research Centre join The Africa's Report's Nicholas Norbrook