Why Pacific Island States Are Concerned About Deep-Sea Mining
The underwater minerals are needed for the global transition to clean energy, but the effects of extraction may pose major risks to surrounding states. Read More Here
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The Global Economy’s Unsolved Problems
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
The highly charged geopolitics of lithium
China produces 75% of all lithium-ion batteries used in EVs but Australia controls the world’s largest battery-grade deposits. Read More Here
Why The World Feels Different In 2023
From climate negotiations to sports to diplomacy, the global south is becoming more powerful. Read More Here
India’s G-20 Presidency Is A Golden Opportunity
New Delhi has the chance to shape the global agenda and advocate for its vision of multilateralism. Read More Here
The New Geopolitics of Energy
It is true that clean energy will transform geopolitics—just not necessarily in the ways many of its champions expect. The transition will reconfigure many elements of international politics that have shaped the global system… Read More Here
The Arctic, From Romance To Reality
Today, the Arctic landscape is not just dramatic, but dramatically transforming. Temperatures are increasing at alarming rates worldwide, but warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast as the global average. According to a 2017 report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), the extent and thickness of sea ice continue to decrease. If predictions […]
Could It All Be Made In China By 2025?
Take more than 500 types of industrial product and China ranks first for 220 of them, globally. Yet Beijing isn’t satisfied with just being the world’s factory for cheap goods. More than a third of the country’s 800-million workforce produce biblical amounts of stuff, generating $3 trillion annually, but China’s position is slipping. It’s political and […]
Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal From Paris Climate Deal
President Donald Trump announced that he will pull out of the Paris climate agreement, delivering the news in a Rose Garden speech loaded with the “America First” rhetoric of his presidential campaign. Read Here – Politico Also read: Did Donald Trump Just Make the Planet Hotter 4 Reasons President Trump Was Right to Pull Out […]
India’s Water Politics
From the San Francisco Bay area to Sao Paulo to Riyadh, water shortages increasingly cloud economic forecasts. But nowhere is the risk greater than in South Asia, where India, the largest economy and most important regional power, faces crippling shortages and a lack of consensus on what to do about them. Read Here – Foreign […]
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