Simon Zadek, currently Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, is Senior Fellow of the Global Green Growth Institute and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
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Simon Zadek
Commentaries by Simon Zadek
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The Age of Macroinvestment
BEIJING – South African President Jacob Zuma’s warning to Western corporations to change their neocolonial attitudes toward Africa or risk l…
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Financing the Green Economy
BEIJING – According to new estimates that will be presented at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, $100 trillion is needed by…
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The Carbon Cliff
CAPE TOWN – We are perched on the edge of a precipice: a devastating overheating of the planet caused by fossil-fuel use. The implications o…
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One Flew Over the Resource Curse
GENEVA – Geopolitical insight is often gained through real-life experience, rather than big-picture thinking. Arriving at Charles de Ga…
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Age Against the Machine
BEIJING – The elderly are a crucial link in the chain that binds generations and sustains civilized society. Today, however, older peop…
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The Roots of Resource Nationalism
GENEVA – Resource nationalism, now on the rise from Mongolia to South Africa to Argentina, has long been positively correlated with commodit…
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Realizing Private Capital’s Public Benefits
GENEVA – Greece’s youthful left-wing leader, Alexis Tsipras, has a point – certainly polemical and undoubtedly over-simplified – in declarin…
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Green Unilateralism
GENEVA – At the upcoming Rio+20 summit in Brazil, more than 135 heads of state and government, and up to 50,000 participants, including busi…
Financing the Green Economy
Francisco Estudillo: Could someone translate this article into spanish, please? Thanks
Financing the Green Economy
PROCYON MUKHERJEE: The crash of S&P Global Clean Energy Index (moving from 3500 in 2008 to 479 now) is not sufficient to describe the paradox demonstrated in the euphoria that this article is promoting based on WEF's re…