Designing a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
The northern summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters. The list — which includes intense flooding in China and Western...
Penny-Wise and Health-Foolish Members of WHO
MARIANA MAZZUCATO AND ILONA KICKBUSCH
It beggars belief, but it is true: In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the member states of the World...
Informal Workers Need More than Legal Recognition
MARIANA PRANDINI ASSIS
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American governments took the unprecedented step of including informal workers in emergency relief legislation. Informal workers comprise...
Green Business After COP26
JOHAN ROCKSTROM, TOBIAS RAFFEL
What is next on the global climate agenda? This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow certainly did not...
G20 begins in Rome to focus on several international issues
The G20 Summit kicked off Saturday in the Italian capital, Rome, to discuss international challenges and crises as well as climate change and the...
Competition and Coexistence
These are demanding times. Geopolitical tensions are rising, primarily, but not exclusively, between China and the United States. Yet, at the same time, there...
New Vision for Global Cooperation
The world faces a range of serious threats — from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality — that are preventing the international...
Second Chance for Global Development
Second chances are not common in this world, but one is arriving now. The scope and scale of government support for businesses and workers...
The Bitcoin Fountainhead
With the price of Bitcoin reaching new highs, and El Salvador and Cuba deciding to accept it as legal tender, cryptocurrencies are here to...
Education in an Age of Displacement
The ongoing flood of refugees from Afghanistan — now some 2.6 million strong — is sadly no isolated tragedy. Indeed, if all of today’s...
