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COP29: Ambition & Action

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    Inclusive Finance Is the Key to Climate Action

    Sophie Sirtaine calls for COP29 to address the overlooked question of how to channel funds to vulnerable communities.
  2. calvino4_SeanGallupGettyImages_cop29 Sean Gallup/Getty Images

    Climate Action Must Rise Above Politics

    Nadia Calviño foresees multilateral development banks continuing to play a critical role in financing the green transition.
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    There Is No Alternative to Multilateral Climate Action

    Mukhtar Babayev urges world leaders at COP29 to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the targets set by the Paris agreement.
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    The Right Climate Finance for Developing Economies

    Hippolyte Fofack urges the Global North to focus on vulnerable countries’ need to invest in adaptation-related infrastructure.
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet

    Axel van Trotsenburg outlines how countries can foster inclusive growth while shielding people from the effects of climate change.
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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.
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    A New Paradigm for Standing Forests

    Ajay Banga, et al. present a new mechanism to generate financial returns for countries that prevent deforestation.

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    Once Again, It Was the Economy, Stupid

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    The economy played a critical role in the 2024 presidential race, creating the conditions not only for Donald Trump to trounce Kamala Harris, but also for a counter-elite to usher in a new power structure. Will the Democrats and “establishment” experts get the message?

    explains how and why Democrats failed to connect with US voters’ pocketbook realities.
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    PS Events: COP29 Live From Baku

    PS editors present the COP29 Live From Baku event.
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    Trumpian Turmoil Is Coming to the Middle East

    Barak Barfi thinks that the regional leaders who are cheering now may soon be pining for a less capricious leader.
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    The Democrats Committed Suicide This Year

    James K. Galbraith thinks the party has only itself to blame for losing the 2024 election on low voter turnout.
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    America Must Stand Up to Asia's Bully

    Brahma Chellaney urges Donald Trump’s incoming administration to push back against China’s aggressive expansionism.
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    Inclusive Finance Is the Key to Climate Action

    Sophie Sirtaine calls for COP29 to address the overlooked question of how to channel funds to vulnerable communities.
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    India’s Troubled Truce with China

    Shashi Tharoor fears that the recent agreement ending the military standoff in Ladakh will not bring the expected benefits.
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    Reducing Men’s Cancer Burden

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor outlines a holistic approach that combines personal responsibility with community and government action.
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    The Trump Shock Is the Democrats’ Fault

    Daron Acemoglu

    While the Democrats have won some recent elections with support from Silicon Valley, minorities, trade unions, and professionals in large cities, this coalition was never sustainable. The party has become culturally disconnected from, and disdainful of, precisely the voters it needs to win.

    thinks Kamala Harris lost because her party has ceased to be the political home of American workers.

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