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Geoffrey Heal

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Geoffrey Heal is Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School and a professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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  1. What Can COP28 Achieve?
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    What Can COP28 Achieve?

    Oct 16, 2023 Geoffrey Heal sets out realistic expectations for the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.

  2. Scoping Out Corporate Carbon Neutrality
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    Scoping Out Corporate Carbon Neutrality

    Nov 22, 2021 Geoffrey Heal helps to clear up some of the unnecessary confusion plaguing debates about “offsetting.”

  3. Are US Corporations Above the Law?
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    Are US Corporations Above the Law?

    Jul 12, 2021 Joseph E. Stiglitz & Geoffrey Heal lament a recent Supreme Court decision effectively siding with Big Chocolate over former child slaves.

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    Earthquakes in the Middle East

    Richard Haass

    For almost a year, many hoped that Israel's war with Hamas would not spread beyond Gaza. But attacks on northern Israel by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and now the decision by both groups' backer, Iran, to fire ballistic missiles at Israel, has made a regional conflict all but inevitable.

     explains why the fighting between Israel and Hamas has escalated into a regional conflict involving Iran.
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    Putin’s Ukraine Magic

    Slavoj Žižek examines what the Kremlin’s strategy of deception means for diplomatic efforts to end the war.
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    China’s Economy Needs a Stimulus Package

    Yu Yongding urges policymakers to prevent prolonged stagnation by implementing expansionary monetary and fiscal policies.
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    Austria’s Far Right Did Not Win

    Maciej Kisilowski rejects the notion that a plurality should confer a mandate to govern in a multiparty parliamentary system.
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    The High Cost of Excluding Chinese Technology

    Michael Spence warns that both the global economy and the sustainability agenda could be dealt a devastating blow.
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    The Lessons and Legacy of October 7

    Richard Haass argues that Israel has shown in Gaza how it is possible to win a war on the battlefield and still lose it.
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    Climate Change Is Making Us Sick

    Paul Hudson urges the health-care sector to devise strategies to address the increase in respiratory and other diseases.
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    The Russian War Economy’s Days Are Numbered

    Anders Åslund explains why – and when – the Kremlin will run out of the resources it needs to continue its war.
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    How Is the World Really Doing on the SDGs?

    Homi Kharas & John W. McArthur offer a balanced assessment of the forms and pace of progress made since 2015.

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