Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming
Last November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, concluded on a historic high note, with the last-minute agreement to establish...
A World of Debt
Recent headlines seem to augur a global debt crisis. The United States is teetering on the precipice of a self-inflicted default. Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan,...
Keeping Small Islands Financially Afloat
It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year’s International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring...
Half a Century of Animal Liberation Is Not Enough
Fifty years ago, my first article arguing that it is wrong to treat animals as we do appeared in The New York Review of...
Climate Elephants in the Room
Now that the falsehoods and obfuscation of climate denialism have finally been silenced, addressing climate change has become the world’s top priority. But time...
Lethal Price of Sweatshop Development
It has been ten years since an eight-story commercial building housing several textile factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on 24 Aprill,...
Dilemmas of Deterrence
We live in a world where geopolitical stability relies largely on deterrence. But how can we prove that deterrence works?
Consider the ongoing war in...
BRICS Threat to the Dollar?
Russia’s war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s recent meeting in Moscow, and China’s apparent success in brokering a diplomatic rapprochement between Iran...
To research or not to research geoengineering
As our planet’s climate heats up, so, too, does the debate about the boldest response to it: geoengineering, or the deliberate modification of the...
Rethinking Development in an Age of Crisis
Nowhere is the impact of recent crises — the lingering economic consequences of COVID-19 and the global spillover effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine...
