Masen boss Bakkoury makes do with Toronto video call after missing out on COP26

摘要

All else being equal, he should have been one of the stars of Morocco's delegation at COP26, which was led by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and arrived in Glasgow on 2 November to take part in the United Nations environmental extravaganza. But Mustapha Bakkoury, the CEO of the sustainable energy agency Masen, was absent from Scotland, and for good reason: at the beginning of this year, he was prohibited from leaving Moroccan soil as part of an ongoing legal investigation into Masen's governance of its Noor Ouarzazate solar power plant (AI, 02/04/21). Bakkoury had previously found himself unable to travel to the United Arab Emirates despite being the curator of Morocco's pavilion at the Expo 2020 in Dubai.