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    Climate Change Is Making Us Sick

    Paul Hudson urges the health-care sector to devise strategies to address the increase in respiratory and other diseases.
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    How Is the World Really Doing on the SDGs?

    Homi Kharas & John W. McArthur offer a balanced assessment of the forms and pace of progress made since 2015.
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    Africa’s Food Security Depends on Adaptive Crops

    Agnes Kalibata & Cary Fowler urge the public and private sectors to work together to increase production of traditional indigenous staples.
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    How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance

    Mette Frederiksen & Mia Amor Mottley explain why “blended finance” should be central to discussions ahead of this year's UN Climate Change Conference.
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    Sustainably Financing Sustainable Development

    Paola Subacchi proposes ways to reduce low-income countries’ debts and expand their access to affordable finance.
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    The Case for a Global Climate Assembly

    Laurence Tubiana & Ana Toni explain how to build a broad-based consensus for policies that accelerate the green transition.
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    Financing Nature

    Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak & Bogolo Kenewendo propose ways to unlock more public and private capital for investments in preserving and restoring the planet.
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    Put a Price on Shipping Emissions

    Shania Scotland calls on small island countries to back a proposed levy on maritime greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    The Need for Methane Targets

    Marcelo Mena & Sarah Ann Smith urge China and the United States to take the lead in committing to cut emissions from super pollutants.

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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 Global Implications of China’s Stimulus Package

    Shang-Jin Wei explains why the country’s push to revive economic activity depends on boosting domestic demand.
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    A New President and a Grim Legacy for Mexico

    Enrique Krauze reflects on the harmful tenure of the outgoing president, who weakened the economy and eroded its institutions.
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    Governance Reform Is Key to Reviving China’s Economy

    Angela Huyue Zhang argues that lasting prosperity depends not on boosting demand, but on a return to bottom-up governance.
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    Creating a “Goldilocks” Business Climate

    Indermit Gill unveils the World Bank’s new, improved approach to unlocking private-sector development.
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    Earthquakes in the Middle East

    Richard Haass

    For almost a year, many hoped that Israel's war with Hamas would not spread beyond Gaza. But attacks on northern Israel by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and now the decision by both groups' backer, Iran, to fire ballistic missiles at Israel, has made a regional conflict all but inevitable.

     explains why the fighting between Israel and Hamas has escalated into a regional conflict involving Iran.
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    Putin’s Ukraine Magic

    Slavoj Žižek examines what the Kremlin’s strategy of deception means for diplomatic efforts to end the war.
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    China’s Economy Needs a Stimulus Package

    Yu Yongding urges policymakers to prevent prolonged stagnation by implementing expansionary monetary and fiscal policies.
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    Austria’s Far Right Did Not Win

    Maciej Kisilowski rejects the notion that a plurality should confer a mandate to govern in a multiparty parliamentary system.
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    The High Cost of Excluding Chinese Technology

    Michael Spence warns that both the global economy and the sustainability agenda could be dealt a devastating blow.

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