Carbon Farming Won't Save the Planet

BERLIN – Healthy soil is indispensable to life on Earth, sustaining nearly 60% of all living species. As the second-largest carbon reservoir...

yesterday 20

Sophie Scherger

Trump’s Bad COP

NEW DELHI – Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has cast a dark shadow over the United Nations Climate Change Conference...

yesterday 30

Jayati Ghosh

Putin’s March of Folly

NEW DELHI – In a lengthy address at the annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to outline his...

yesterday 30

Carl Bildt

Are Tariffs Worth It?

NEW HAVEN – US President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to impose a 60% tariff on imports from China, and a 10-20% tariff on all other imports...

yesterday 30

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

A Better Approach to Climate Finance

CAMBRIDGE – Two years behind schedule, in 2022 the world’s developed countries finally fulfilled their 2009 pledge to mobilize $100 billion...

yesterday 30

Ricardo Hausmann

A Trump Boom?

WASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump’s stunning and decisive return to power makes it official: We live in the Age of Trump. The 2008 global financial...

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Michael R. Strain

COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

MADRID – Last week, the World Leaders Climate Action Summit took place within the framework of the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference...

previous day 20

Ana Palacio

Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?

WASHINGTON, DC – So far this year, floods, heat waves, droughts, storms, and wildfires have led to thousands of deaths, threatened the health and...

previous day 20

Liane Schalatek

How Global Public Investment Should Work

LONDON – Following the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia (COP 16) and in the midst of the United Nations Climate Change Conference...

previous day 10

Mariana Mazzucato

Interspecies Money Is Here

LOS ANGELES/KIGALI – Each year in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, around 25 infant gorillas are named and celebrated in the Kwita Izina...

previous day 10

Nils Gilman

Trump Won, but Trumpism Did Not

NEW HAVEN – It is easy to exaggerate Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris in the recent US presidential contest. He won the popular vote by...

monday 30

Bruce Ackerman

Crunch Time for the WHO

EDINBURGH – At this month’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, chaired by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, global leaders are expected...

monday 2

Gordon Brown

Global Tensions Over China’s Overcapacity Will Rise Under Trump

NEW YORK – While President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats are likely to dominate headlines in the near term, China’s industrial...

monday 20

Brendan Kelly

Azerbaijan Greenwashes Authoritarianism at COP29

ISTANBUL – On November 11, thousands of world leaders, international stakeholders, and civil-society advocates kicked off the United Nations...

monday 20

Arzu Geybulla

The G20 Must Help Africa Close the Climate-Finance Gap

NAIROBI – In a world grappling with unprecedented climate challenges, the addition of a permanent seat in the G20 for the African Union represents...

monday 2

Raila Amolo Odinga

The EU Needs a Strong Clean Industrial Deal

PARIS/BRUSSELS – The European Union positioned itself as the global front-runner on climate action five years ago, when it launched the European...

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Jean Pisani-Ferry

To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump

BOSTON – In her moving concession speech, US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris urged her supporters not to give in...

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