Waste Less, Earn More
Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious...
France’s role at the United Nations: Peacekeeping and international security
France fully supports UN peacekeeping operations. It is the second troop contributing country among the five permanent members of the Security Council, with 940...
Monitoring the Kuwait-Iraq cease-fire
Christian de COCKBORNE
Please tell us a little bit about your career.
I am Christian de COCKBORNE. I joined the French army in 1979 and became...
Honoring the Blue Berets
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May, offers an opportunity for the global community to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilian...
Overcoming Water Scarcity Naturally
We must overhaul agriculture, by far the biggest consumer of water, to get more ‘crop per drop’. Incentives for intensive production that disregards wetlands,...
Tackling the Global Learning Crisis
Education has emerged as one of the most consequential casualties of the pandemic. According to estimates from UNESCO, around 1.6 billion students across more...
Unleashing the Climate Market
Progress against climate change has long crept at a snail’s pace, and the costs of inaction are increasingly clear to see. Hardly a week...
Struggle for Technology Sovereignty in Europe
Back when states regularly used armed forces to compel others into compliance or dependence, sovereignty was primarily a geographic and military concept. But the...
Fiscal Follies in COVID recovery
When COVID-19 went global about a year ago, the memory of the 2008 global financial crisis was still fresh, and policymakers pulled every lever...
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation
Dear Mr. President,
The world has welcomed your election and commitment to restore diplomatic engagement with the international community to the center of US foreign...
