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Margareta Wahlström

Margareta Wahlström

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Margareta Wahlström is Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

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  1. The Year of Resilience
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    The Year of Resilience

    Jan 16, 2015 Margareta Wahlström calls on world leaders to strengthen measures aimed at mitigating disaster risk.

  2. Safer Climate Disasters
    Storm Gathering Toni Verdú Carbó/Flickr

    Safer Climate Disasters

    Jun 13, 2014 Kristalina Georgieva & Margareta Wahlström issue a call for greater efforts to reduce the risks associated with extreme weather events.

  3. Disaster-Proof Development
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    Disaster-Proof Development

    Nov 1, 2013 Margareta Wahlström on climate change and the exposure of economic assets.

  4. Women, Girls, and Disasters
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    Women, Girls, and Disasters

    Oct 10, 2012 Margareta Wahlström

  5. Japan’s Resilience Lessons
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    Japan’s Resilience Lessons

    Mar 6, 2012 Margareta Wahlström

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    Breaking US Democracy Beyond Repair

    Ian Buruma warns that Donald Trump’s efforts to tear down America’s “civic religion” will be difficult to reverse.
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    Can the Liberal International Order Survive Without America?

    Chris Patten urges Western countries to safeguard the institutions that have underpinned their postwar stability.
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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Carla Norrlöf

    In betting that the economic fallout from his sweeping new tariffs will be worth the gains in border security, US President Donald Trump is gambling with America’s long-term influence and prosperity. In the future, more countries will have even stronger reasons to try to reduce their reliance on the United States.

     thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.
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    The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

    Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Daron Acemoglu

    While America’s AI industry arguably needed shaking up, the news of a Chinese startup beating Big Tech at its own game raises some difficult questions. Fortunately, if US tech leaders and policymakers can take the right lessons from DeepSeek's success, we could all end up better for it.

     considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.
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    Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

    Karen Rønde urges all publishers to bargain collectively to secure the fair compensation quality journalism requires.
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    East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0

    Takatoshi Ito warns America’s key regional allies to be prepared to make concessions to the new US administration.
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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.

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