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Simon Zadek

Simon Zadek

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Simon Zadek is Executive Director of NatureFinance.

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  1. Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Mar 27, 2023 Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.

  2. Trouble With Carbon Markets
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    Trouble With Carbon Markets

    Mar 1, 2023 Simon Zadek hopes that recent scandals spur broad-based efforts to establish a robust governance framework for offsets.

  3. Legitimate Investors Are Financing Environmental Crime
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    Legitimate Investors Are Financing Environmental Crime

    Feb 3, 2022 Simon Zadek urges banks and regulators to apply anti-money-laundering rules to a broader range of corporate activities.

  4. Financing a Sustainable Global Food System
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    Financing a Sustainable Global Food System

    Sep 14, 2021 Simon Zadek proposes four ways to mobilize private capital behind the transition to viable, equitable production.

  5. Greening Sovereign-Debt Restructuring
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    Greening Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    Aug 12, 2020 Simon Zadek urges creditors to offer better terms to debtors that improve protection of their natural capital.

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    Tax the Rich to Save the Planet

    Owen Gaffney argues that reducing economic inequality is the key to strengthening democracy and mitigating climate change.
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    Is Globalization Over?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. explains why reports of the death of humanity's interdependence are greatly exaggerated.
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    Putin and Trump in the Dock?

    Jack Goldsmith explains the risks associated with pursuing criminal prosecutions against high-profile political figures.
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    The Great Revision

    Joschka Fischer examines the broader geopolitical restructuring that was triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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    Why Inflation Persists

    Lars P. Feld

    What "Team Transitory" has missed in the inflation debate is that inflation tends to become persistent because of second-round effects. Not only have producer prices risen over the past year or so, but they also have not yet been fully passed through the value chain.

    navigates the complex array of factors that give rise to one of the biggest problems in macroeconomics.
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    Wanted: Vladimir Putin

    Antara Haldar explains why the International Criminal Court’s indictment is more than just a symbolic victory.
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    Here We Go Again?

    Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.

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    The Coming Doom Loop

    Nouriel Roubini warns that liquidity support will not be enough to prevent a deeper financial crisis and economic downturn.
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    Crises of Uncertainty

    Harold James fears the consequences of policymakers’ continual revision of economic and financial governance rules.

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