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    The Climate-Security Failure

    Bogolo Kenewendo warns that governments are not doing enough to address the biggest threat facing humanity today.
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    The Best Way to Preserve Nature Is Also the Fairest

    Hindou Ibrahim notes that, with funding and land rights, indigenous peoples can do more than anyone to conserve biodiversity.
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    The Varieties of Climate Inequality

    Laura Chinchilla Miranda shows how climate change disproportionately disadvantages the already disadvantaged.
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    Will We Prosper, or Will We Disappear?

    Mohamed Nasheed explains what the international community must do to support climate-vulnerable developing countries.
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    What Climate Justice Means for Africa

    Mo Ibrahim shows how the international community is ignoring the continent's unique interests and constraints.
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    Climate Injustice and the Curse of Illusory Growth

    Hippolyte Fofack shows why achieving global income convergence and sustainable development will require a new economic model.
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    All Are Welcome at the Climate Club

    Avram Alpert & Dennis J. Snower explain why a new German-designed coordination framework can succeed where similar past efforts have failed.
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    Climate Accountability Now

    Mary Robinson considers the steps that will be needed to redress the shortcomings of COP26 in Glasgow.
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    Righting the Injustice of Africa's Water Crisis

    Alex Simalabwi urges rich-country leaders to invest far more in water security across the continent.

The participation of developing-country media and commentators in this initiative is supported in part by The Open Society Foundations.

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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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