Dread, Hope at COP27
Ask two different climate experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt (COP27) to characterize their feelings about the future, and you...
Developing Countries Can Reach Net Zero
The world’s developing economies are gearing up for a fight ahead of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt. The gathering...
Libertarian Lettuce
Following the brutal market backlash against her plans for unfunded tax cuts and tens of billions of pounds in additional spending, Liz Truss resigned...
Electrification, clean cooking go hand in hand
Almost one-third of the world’s population — 2.4 billion people — cook with solid biomass, which has devastating consequences for their health and the...
Fixing the Food Trade
GENEVA – Between rising hunger and the prospect of still more supply shortages, dark clouds are hovering over the global food system. Not only...
Afghanistan’s Girls and Women Fight Back
Thousands of women and girls have taken to the streets of Afghanistan’s cities to protest the repeated violation of their right to an education....
The Implementation COP
This November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) will come at a time of economic and geopolitical turmoil, affecting food security, public health, and...
Financing Green Infrastructure
To spur development and fight climate change, emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) will need huge amounts of investment in green infrastructure over the next...
The Great Chips War
In addition to dealing with the fallout from open warfare in eastern Europe, the world is witnessing the start of a full-scale economic war...
COP of No Return
Some fear that this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held at Sharm El-Sheikh from 6–18 November, will be an unintended casualty...
