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  1. fayolle3_MUNIR UZ ZAMANAFP via Getty Images_drinking water MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images

    The Water Crisis Is a Vital Investment Opportunity

    Ambroise Fayolle & Henk Ovink calls for new thinking about how we value the planet’s most important natural resource.
  2. grafton2_ SIMON MAINAAFP via Getty Images_water SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images

    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
  3. mazzucato52_Mario TamaGetty Images_water agriculture drought Mario Tama/Getty Images

    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
  4. ghosh59_Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images_emissions Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

    The High Cost of Carbon Pricing

    Jayati Ghosh warns that measures to reduce imported emissions could, perversely, end up impeding global decarbonization.
  5. willoughby2_WILLIAM WESTAFP via Getty Images_farms WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images

    The Food-System Revolution Is Coming

    Robin Willoughby & Nico Muzi see three big sources of industry-wide disruption that will be beneficial if properly managed.
  6. busch1_ Li HanchiVCG via Getty Images_china ev Li Hanchi/VCG via Getty Images

    China’s Fast EV Growth Should Be Even Faster

    Chris Busch explains how the government could accelerate the transition to zero-emissions transportation.
  7. kenewendo2_ PHILL MAGAKOEAFP via Getty Images_durban floods PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images

    The Climate-Security Failure

    Bogolo Kenewendo warns that governments are not doing enough to address the biggest threat facing humanity today.
  8. zadek24_DOUGLAS MAGNOAFP via Getty Images_amazondeforestation Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

    Trouble With Carbon Markets

    Simon Zadek hopes that recent scandals spur broad-based efforts to establish a robust governance framework for offsets.
  9. halland6_ Sean GallupGetty Images_nuclearpowerplant Sean Gallup/Getty Images

    Development Banks Must Embrace Nuclear Energy

    Håvard Halland & Jessica Lovering urge multilateral lenders to abandon their hostility to an increasingly safe and affordable technology.

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The participation of developing-country media and commentators in the Sustainability Now initiative is supported in part by The Open Society Foundations.

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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
  2. varoufakis101_Justin SullivanGetty Images_svb Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

    shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
  4. op_schell1_Andrea VerdelliGetty Images_xijinping Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images

    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.

    about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
  5. zizek16_ Frank Rumpenhorstpicture alliance via Getty Images_chatbot Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images

    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
  6. kabubomariara1_Per-Anders Pettersson  Contributor Getty Images_research africa Per-Anders Pettersson / Contributor Getty Images

    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
  7. eeckhout1_Feature ChinaFuture Publishing via Getty Images_digitalrenminbi Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
  8. chellaney161_ARUN SANKARAFP via Getty Images_blinken lavrov ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images

    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
  9. krueger61_Tom WilliamsCQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images_Intelsemicronductors Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

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