Klaus Töpfer

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

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The Trumping of the Middle East

Jan 15, 2019 Shlomo Ben-Ami laments the region’s vulnerability to the effects of a US policy seemingly designed to produce mayhem.

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Disruption, Concentration, and the New Economy

Jan 15, 2019 Raghuram Rajan highlights key structural changes that policymakers – and especially central bankers – will have to address.

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Rhymes from Central Europe

Jan 15, 2019 Robert Skidelsky thinks the revival of nationalism and anti-Semitism in Hungary should have come as no surprise.

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How US Monetary Policy Has Tamed China

Jan 15, 2019 David Lubin argues that rising interest rates are reducing China’s self-confidence and constraining its global ambitions.

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Trump’s Brain Drain

Jan 15, 2019 Anne O. Krueger points out that a hard line on immigration risks undercutting the US higher-education sector.

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The Leader the World Bank Needs

Jan 15, 2019 Homi Kharas & Eswar Prasad hope the organization's next president will be someone who embraces the full ambition and scope of its mission.

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Circumventing the Great Firewall

Jan 15, 2019 Xiao Qiang and PS Associate Editor Greg Bruno discuss the expansion of China’s digital censorship.

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Indian Farmers in Revolt

Jan 15, 2019 Shashi Tharoor thinks the government's failure to address the agriculture crisis could decide the coming general election.

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