For the last several years, world leaders have made big promises and laid out bold plans to mitigate the climate crisis and help the neediest countries adapt. At this year’s World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, they must demonstrate that they can fulfill these promises, rather than simply touting new ones. Read More Here
The COP deal was a breakthrough, but subsidy policy will be key in achieving its goals. Read More Here
John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua have forged a close working relationship as the superpowers they represent have drifted apart. Read More Here
A string of high-level meetings this year have produced a number of proposals for dealing with key global challenges, from unsustainable public debt to climate change. But few decisions have been made, and some of the most prominent proposals are deeply flawed. Read More Here
If COP28 is to be judged a success, the UAE, as the summit’s host, and other hydrocarbon producers should promise to dedicate some of the windfall oil and gas profits they earned last year to accelerating the green transition in the Global South. Doing so could encourage historic and current emitters to pay their fair […]
Dismissing the summit because its host is an oil producer is hypocritical and dangerous. Read More Here
It is now common knowledge that economic, monetary, and financial threats are rising and interacting in dangerous ways with various other social, political, geopolitical, environmental, health, and technological developments. And there is little reason to believe that today’s leaders can manage these multiplying risks. Read More Here
The upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai has the potential to encourage further climate action, including policies that can lead to technological breakthroughs and much-needed rules on important technical issues, such as the use of offsets. Whether it succeeds depends entirely on execution. Read More Here
A succession of shocks over the past decade and a half have significantly reversed the dominant international economic trend of the post-Cold War era. Read More Here
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Friday on a $430 billion bill to fight climate change and lower prescription drug prices, in what Democrats view as a major political win for President Joe Biden. Read More Here
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