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  • The Green Recovery focuses on what comes next, with an emphasis on biodiversity, energy, public investments, and financial and corporate governance. The recovery phase will bring far-reaching opportunities to accelerate the transition to renewable energies, reorient business and finance toward sustainable development, and reconsider our relationship with the planet. But it will also open a window for populists, nationalists, and others to exploit public anxieties and pursue zero-sum politics. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that averting the worst-case climate scenario will depend entirely on the actions taken (or not taken) in the 2020s. The stakes could not be higher.

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      The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point

      Huw van Steenis sees disclosure standards and other financial-industry trends moving in a “greener” direction.
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      China’s Inevitable Low-Carbon Future

      Xizhou Zhou argues that the country's pursuit of its economic and security goals will naturally lead to lower emissions.
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      How to Recover Green

      Joseph E. Stiglitz explains what forward-looking governments could do to turn the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity.
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      Nature Is Our Common Ground for a Green Recovery

      Ana María Hernández Salgar sees the pandemic response and an upcoming biodiversity summit as major opportunities for collective action.
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      Climate Crunch Time

      Bill McKibben interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement 50 years after the first Earth Day.
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      The Internal Combustion Bust

      Mónica Araya anticipates accelerating progress toward zero-emissions transportation in the post-pandemic era.
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      Whither Oil?

      Helen Thompson calls for a more realistic assessment of what it will take to phase out the fossil-fuel industry.
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      The No DICE Carbon Price

      Gernot Wagner argues that while climate policies are inherently contentious, the basic science and economics should not be.
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      Shareholder Value in a Burning World

      Rebecca Henderson argues that the current model of corporate capitalism can still be made compatible with climate goals.
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      The Need for a Great Transformation

      Ann Pettifor shows why a sustainable recovery will require an overhaul of the international financial and monetary system.
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      A Multicolored New Deal

      Jayati Ghosh explains why the global arrangements needed for the post-pandemic era must be more than just “green.”
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      The Promise of Decarbonization

      Christiana Figueres advocates policies to direct global economic recovery toward a more sustainable and resilient system.

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