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Oliver Geden

Oliver Geden

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Oliver Geden is head of the European Union research division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

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  1. Toward a Viable Climate Target
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    Toward a Viable Climate Target

    May 18, 2016 Oliver Geden explains why reductions in greenhouse-gas emission make better targets than temperature thresholds.

  2. Pragmatism in Climate Policy
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    Pragmatism in Climate Policy

    Nov 23, 2015 Oliver Geden explains why a more modest, bottom-up approach to fighting global warming has emerged.

  3. A New Climate-Policy Paradigm
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    A New Climate-Policy Paradigm

    Aug 7, 2013 Oliver Geden on replacing the top-down approach to global climate policy.

  4. Beyond the Two-Degree Target
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    Beyond the Two-Degree Target

    Nov 15, 2010 Oliver Geden

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    What Will Trump’s Victory Mean for the Climate?

    Gernot Wagner notes that the president-elect’s proposed policies will mainly harm America, not the global energy transition.
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    The Causes and Consequences of Trump’s Comeback

    Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the reasons for – and implications of – US Democrats’ resounding election failure.
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    The Laugh Is on the Democrats

    Ian Buruma sees Donald Trump’s victory as a rebellion of the culturally dispossessed who relish his insult comedy.
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    The EU Must Break Up Big Tech

    Cori Crider explains how reining in digital giants’ outsize power would boost competition and help combat climate change.
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    The Case for Solidarity Levies

    A promising way to mobilize more climate finance for developing countries is to expand the use of “solidarity levies”: global levies on carbon dioxide emissions and other economic activities that channel proceeds to developing countries. The benefits of scaling up such measures would be far-reaching.

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    Living in Trump’s World

    Mark Leonard explains what European leaders must do to prepare for the radical changes promised by the US president-elect.
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    PS Roundtable: The Return of Trump

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    Although Americans – and the world – have been spared the kind of agonizing uncertainty that followed the 2020 election, a different kind of uncertainty has set in. While few doubt that Donald Trump's comeback will have far-reaching implications, most observers are only beginning to come to grips with what those could be.

    consider what the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will mean for America and the world.
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    Inequality Is Destroying Mental Health

    Olivier De Schutter & Kate Pickett propose raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to improve well-being in unequal countries.
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    How Europe Could Benefit from Trump’s Second Term

    Daniel Gros urges policymakers to focus on defusing trade tensions with the bloc’s largest export partner.

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