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Green Markets for Equitable Growth Sustainability Now
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Green Markets for Equitable Growth

Graciela Chichilnisky & Peter Bal advocate the revival of a global emissions-trading scheme like the one created by the Kyoto Protocol.

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A Green Industrialization Strategy for Africa Sustainability Now
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A Green Industrialization Strategy for Africa

Tariye Isoun Gbadegesin urges the continent's governments to leverage their “brown” industries to secure clean, sustainable growth.

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Global Trade’s Bright (Green) Future Sustainability Now
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Global Trade’s Bright (Green) Future

Pascal Lamy reports on the progress made toward reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from the shipping industry.

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The Growing Threat of Water Wars Sustainability Now
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The Growing Threat of Water Wars

Jayati Ghosh highlights the escalating danger posed by strain on one of our most essential resources.

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Goats Against Climate Change Sustainability Now
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Goats Against Climate Change

Sabine Homann-Kee Tui touts the success of an innovation platform in Mozambique that has raised the incomes of local farmers.

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Disrupting Climate Change Through Innovation Sustainability Now
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Disrupting Climate Change Through Innovation

Ambroise Fayolle emphasizes the need for more investment facilities to encourage innovation in green technologies.

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Toward a Global Biodiversity Accord Sustainability Now
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Toward a Global Biodiversity Accord

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez & Alvaro Cedeno Molinari list ten priorities that should be included in a new international framework for conservation policy.

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Why the Plastic Crisis Matters Sustainability Now
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Why the Plastic Crisis Matters

Froilan Grate & Lili Fuhr argue that climate change and the build-up of polymer waste are two sides of the same coin.

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Are the Climate Kids Right? Sustainability Now
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Are the Climate Kids Right?

Daron Acemoglu welcomes young activists' enthusiasm, but worries about their suspicion of markets and economic growth.

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Impeachment and the Wider World

Carl Bildt

As with the proceedings against former US Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is ultimately a domestic political issue that will be decided in the US Congress. But, unlike those earlier cases, the Ukraine scandal threatens to jam up the entire machinery of US foreign policy.

Making America Mediocre

Anne O. Krueger

America owes its economic strength to its private sector, which has long benefited from an absence of undue influence by politicians and the state. But under US President Donald Trump's administration, discretionary decisions by policymakers are increasingly giving some companies advantages over others.

Why Financial Markets’ New Exuberance Is Irrational

Nouriel Roubini

Owing to a recent easing of both Sino-American tensions and monetary policies, many investors seem to be betting on another era of expansion for the global economy. But they would do well to remember that the fundamental risks to growth remain, and are actually getting worse.