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Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…

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Bjørn Lomborg May 15, 2013

Hugging a Burning Tree

PRAGUE – We are all brought up to recycle paper to save trees. We get countless e-mail admonitions: “Please consider the environment before …
Emmanuel Guerin May 13, 2013

Green Sovereign Wealth

PARIS – At the end of 2011, sovereign-wealth funds’ assets under management amounted to $3 trillion, following 237 direct investments worth …
Achim Steiner, Dorothy Maxwell Apr. 25, 2013

Sustainability at a Profit

NAIROBI – How profitable are the world’s major industrial and agricultural sectors? According to a new report by the London-based consultanc…
Jeffrey Frankel Apr. 16, 2013

Fear of Fracking

CAMBRIDGE – Against all expectations, US emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, since peaking in 2007, have fallen by 12% as of 20…
Peter Singer, Teng Fei Apr. 11, 2013

Fairness and Climate Change

PRINCETON – A sense of fairness is universal among humans, but people often differ about exactly what fairness requires in a specific situat…
Connie Hedegaard Apr. 5, 2013

Stop Paying the Polluters

BRUSSELS – “When the winds of change blow,” says an old Chinese proverb, “some build walls, and others build wind mills.”These same words cl…
Peter Hoffmann Apr. 3, 2013

The Hydrogen Solution

RHINECLIFF, NY – Around the world, governments and businesses are constantly being called upon to make big investments in solar, wind, and g…
Jeffrey D. Sachs Mar. 28, 2013

Paths to Sustainable Power

NEW YORK – The surest bet on the future of energy is the need for low-carbon energy supplies. Around 80% of the world’s primary energy today…
Fredric Raichlen Mar. 20, 2013

Taking Safety Littorally

PASADENA – In 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal region. Last year, Hurricane Sandy caused a wall of water t…
David Griggs Mar. 19, 2013

Redefining Sustainable Development

MELBOURNE – Albert Einstein once said that if he had just one hour to find a solution on which his life depended, he would spend the first 5…

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