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Klaus Töpfer

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Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director at the United Nations Environment Programme, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and a former German environment minister, is Executive Director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam and Council Chair at Agora Energiewende.

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The Solar Price Revolution
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The Solar Price Revolution

Apr 3, 2015 Klaus Töpfer highlights the potential of falling renewable-energy costs to transform production and consumption.

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Boris’s Big Lie
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Boris’s Big Lie

Guy Verhofstadt

While Boris Johnson, the likely successor to British Prime Minister Theresa May, takes his country down a path of diminished trade, the European Union is negotiating one of the largest free-trade agreements in the world. One really has to wonder what the "buccaneering" Brexiteers have to complain about.

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Three Lessons from the Hong Kong Protests
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Three Lessons from the Hong Kong Protests

Steve Tsang outlines how best to minimize the risk of direct confrontation between the city and China's rulers.

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The Bard and the Bank Regulators
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The Bard and the Bank Regulators

Howard Davies

“Be wary then; best safety lies in fear,” said Laertes to Ophelia as she embarked on her doomed dalliance with Hamlet. That is sound advice for banks and their regulators, too, as they face the prospect of technological disruption.

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Is Economic Development the Key to Mideast Peace?
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Is Economic Development the Key to Mideast Peace?

Michael J. Boskin outlines the Trump administration's blueprint for financial aid and reform in the Palestinian territories.

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Istanbul Shows How Democracy Is Won
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Istanbul Shows How Democracy Is Won

Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

For months, the world looked on as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attempted to reverse the outcome of the city's municipal election. But now that Erdoğan's party has been defeated once again (and massively so this time around), his fundamental weakness has been exposed – as has that of populist authoritarians everywhere.

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Asia’s Student-Debt Time Bomb
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Asia’s Student-Debt Time Bomb

M Niaz Asadullah & Theresa Chan urge policymakers to ease the growing financial burden on university graduates – before it's too late.

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What Carrie Lam Should Do Next
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What Carrie Lam Should Do Next

Chris Patten offers Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive two pieces of advice to ease the rising tensions in the city.

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Bad News for the World’s Poorest
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Bad News for the World’s Poorest

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu fears that slower economic growth will make the global fight against poverty even harder.

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