Special Edition Magazine, Fall 2019: Sustainability

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Sustainability Comes of Age brings together many of the leading voices in all of the domains involved in combating climate change, each addressing specific facets of what amounts to an existential threat.

The Necessity of Climate Economics
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The Necessity of Climate Economics

Oct 16, 2019 Vinod Thomas urges economists to make the negative externality of global warming central to their growth models.

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Sustained by Sustainable Coffee
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Sustained by Sustainable Coffee

Oct 15, 2019 Mauricio Cárdenas shows how scientific and financial innovations can help smallholders earn more and protect the environment.

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There Is No Security Without Sustainability
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There Is No Security Without Sustainability

Oct 15, 2019 John R. Allen regards efforts to address climate change and the defense of the United States as two sides of the same coin.

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Integrating the Arab World for Sustainable Growth
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Integrating the Arab World for Sustainable Growth

Oct 15, 2019 Maha Ali blames many of the region's vulnerabilities on its economies' balkanization.

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Tokyo’s Sustainable Games
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Tokyo’s Sustainable Games

Oct 14, 2019 Yuriko Koike explains how the city is ensuring that the 2020 Summer Olympics serve its long-term interests.

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How to Afford the SDGs
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How to Afford the SDGs

Oct 14, 2019 Sergei Guriev says mobilizing private investment is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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Quantitative Greening
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Quantitative Greening

Oct 14, 2019 Laura Tyson & Afsaneh Beschloss highlight what central banks are doing to address the financial risks posed by climate change.

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The Energy Revolution Is Here
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The Energy Revolution Is Here

Oct 11, 2019 Jules Kortenhorst says that the plummeting cost of renewables has put a fully sustainable energy system within reach.

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How to Support Developing Countries in Energy Transition
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How to Support Developing Countries in Energy Transition

Oct 11, 2019 Kenneth Rogoff advocates measures to reduce emerging Asia's continuing reliance on highly polluting coal-fired power plants.

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The Climate Kids Are Right
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The Climate Kids Are Right

Oct 11, 2019 Patrick V. Verkooijen says worldwide youth protests against global warming should shame adults into urgent action to save the planet.

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The End of the Oil Age

Edoardo Campanella

Although the modern world was built with oil, the time has finally come for humanity to shift to newer, cleaner sources of energy. But, as three recent books show, the process will be neither simple nor easy.

reviews three recent books on the state of the industry and its future after the pandemic.

Agents of Automation

Sami Mahroum

Bold, specific, and usually alarming predictions about automation and coming job losses obscure a basic fact: the future remains uncertain. Whether technology is used to liberate or enslave us is always ultimately the responsibility of the humans in charge.

pushes back on the emerging consensus that whatever new technologies can do they inevitably will do.