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Laurence Tubiana

Laurence Tubiana

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Laurence Tubiana, a former French ambassador to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a professor at Sciences Po, Paris.

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  1. The Populist Climate Threat
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    The Populist Climate Threat

    Sep 30, 2022 Izabella Teixeira, et al. warn that right-wing nationalists and other political opportunists could normalize inaction.

  2. Europe and the New Non-Alignment
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    Europe and the New Non-Alignment

    Sep 23, 2022 Laurence Tubiana sees both challenges and opportunities for climate policy in an era of geopolitical fragmentation.

  3. Europe and the New Non-Alignment
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    Europe and the New Non-Alignment

    Sep 12, 2022 Laurence Tubiana sees both challenges and opportunities for climate policy in an era of geopolitical fragmentation.

  4. Europe's Time to Shine
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    Europe's Time to Shine

    Dec 4, 2021 Laurence Tubiana considers the domestic obstacles the European Union will face in its bid for global climate leadership.

  5. From Paris to Glasgow
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    From Paris to Glasgow

    Sep 30, 2021 Laurence Tubiana considers what it will take for the COP26 climate conference to be a success.

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    Resentment on the Western Front

    Sławomir Sierakowski thinks the Polish public needs a more open and honest conversation about refugees before resentment spirals.
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    Crypto’s Well-Worn Path to Crisis

    Xavier Vives writes that, despite the novelty of the assets, the narrative of FTX’s collapse was established long ago.
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    The Unavoidable Crash

    Nouriel Roubini anticipates a stagflationary debt crisis, owing to a dangerous combination of inflation and over-borrowing.
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    War Over Taiwan?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers whether a deterrence arrangement that has worked for 50 years is still sufficient.
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    The Contested Fed

    James Livingston

    By all accounts, central banks – particularly the Fed, because the dollar is still the world’s dominant currency – already act as investment authorities. But their recent bailouts have exacerbated economic inequality, and have done little or nothing to address climate change.

     reviews three books that, each in its own way, reveal a central truth about the world’s leading central bank.
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    The Economics of Mainstreaming Climate Action

    Jean Pisani-Ferry & Selma Mahfouz identify the risks and short-term costs associated with the energy transition over the next decade.
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    Killing Twitter

    Antara Haldar explains what Elon Musk fundamentally misunderstands about the platform – and about free speech.
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    The Napoleons of Big Tech

    Bill Emmott

    Recent events in the technology sector suggest that investors and lenders should be demanding a premium to cover the risk that a star entrepreneur will become an egomaniacal dictator. With each business cycle, it seems, old lessons must be relearned.

     sees in the industry’s harsh reckoning this year lessons that apparently can’t be learned often enough.
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    The Crypto Emperor’s New Clothes

    The collapse of several crypto platforms this year – including the spectacular crash of the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX – has raised fundamental questions about the credibility of a digital innovation once hailed as the key to democratizing finance. Has crypto finally been exposed as a scam, or will a new, stronger crypto industry emerge from the current turmoil?

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