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May Boeve is Executive Director of 350.org.

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  1. An Annual Check-Up for the Climate Movement
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    An Annual Check-Up for the Climate Movement

    Jan 4, 2023 May Boeve assesses patient Earth after a year of energy crises, natural disasters, and landmark global summits.

  2. Rays of Hope in the Climate Struggle
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    Rays of Hope in the Climate Struggle

    Aug 29, 2022 Christiana Figueres & May Boeve think that the new US Inflation Reduction Act will accelerate international efforts to tackle global warming.

  3. What About the Climate Displaced?
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    What About the Climate Displaced?

    Mar 15, 2022 May Boeve, et al. criticize the latest IPCC report for not paying enough attention to a central issue.

  4. The Masses Are Mobilizing for Climate Leadership
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    The Masses Are Mobilizing for Climate Leadership

    Sep 10, 2018 Christiana Figueres & May Boeve argue that a year of “natural” disasters highlights the urgency of public demands for clean energy.

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    A Western Distraction from Climate Action

    Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi warns that calls for the removal of Sultan Al Jaber as COP28 president-designate are a dangerous diversion.
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    How to Restructure Chinese Supply Chains

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that private markets can be leveraged to support a much-needed economic transformation.
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    The Supply Side of Decarbonization

    Ricardo Hausmann touts strategies that create incentives for developing countries to produce renewables and other green goods.
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    America and China Are on a Collision Course

    Nouriel Roubini

    The G7 countries may have set out to deter China without escalating the new cold war, but the perception in Beijing suggests that they failed to thread the needle at their recent summit in Hiroshima. It is now clear to all that the United States, its allies, and any partners they can recruit are committed to containing China’s rise.

     juxtaposes recent developments and current trends with diplomatic happy talk about a “thaw” in tensions.
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    Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa

    Amadou Hott & Mark Malloch-Brown propose ways to redress longstanding inequities and enable African-led solutions to succeed.
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    Why the Fed Is Hard to Predict

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    The US Federal Reserve is adrift, and it has only itself to blame. Regardless of whether its policy-setting committee announces another interest-rate hike in June, its top priority now should be to address the structural weaknesses that led it astray in the first place.

     thinks the US central bank's biggest problem is not the economy but rather its own institutional shortcomings.
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.
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    Give America a Debt Brake

    R. James Breiding thinks the United States could learn a valuable lesson from a policy Switzerland put in place in 2003.
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    The Myth of Western Decline

    Chris Patten argues that Chinese leaders’ characterization of liberal democracy as decadent betrays their fear of it.

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