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  1. hausmann117_TONY KARUMBAAFP via Getty Images_africawindfarm Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
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    A Better Approach to Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann shows how developing countries can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities.
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    Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?

    Liane Schalatek warns that rich countries are once again shirking their responsibility to provide adequate climate finance.
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    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

    Ana Palacio hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.
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    Interspecies Money Is Here

    Nils Gilman & Mutesi Rusagara look beyond the first ever payments to animals and see a new model for human-wildlife economic collaboration.
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    The G20 Must Help Africa Close the Climate-Finance Gap

    Raila Amolo Odinga urges world leaders to ensure the continent's governments can invest in resilience and clean energy.
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    The Case for Solidarity Levies

    Emmanuel Macron, et al. call for new global levies on targeted sectors to finance the green investment developing countries need.
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    Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet

    Axel van Trotsenburg outlines how countries can foster inclusive growth while shielding people from the effects of climate change.
  8. frederiksen1_SIA KAMBOUAFP via Getty Images_africasolar Sia Kambou/AFP via Getty Images
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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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    Small-Island Solidarity and Climate Common Sense

    Nadia Calviño & Jutta Urpilainen explain why it is in Europe's interest to help vulnerable countries invest in adaptation and resilience.

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

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    America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

    Yanis Varoufakis shows why the incoming US administration can’t eliminate the negative balance – and wouldn’t even if it could.
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    Trump’s Middle East Challenge

    Daoud Kuttab highlights the changes in the region that will complicate the US president-elect's peacemaking efforts.
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    Last Chance for the SDGs?

    Kevin Watkins thinks the fate of the 2030 targets hinges on the next International Development Association replenishment.
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    America’s Tech Blind Spot

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang

    In recent years, a growing chorus of academics and policymakers has sounded the alarm over the systemic dysfunction of the US tech sector. Yet, despite the high drama of congressional hearings with Big Tech CEOs and a cascade of bills promising comprehensive reforms, the results have been disappointing.

     worry that in its bid to outcompete China, the US risks stifling its own potential for innovation.
  5. kirchschlager3_JC MILHETHans LucasAFP via Getty Images_teenagersocialmediaphones J.C. Milhet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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    Protecting Children from Anti-Social Media

    Peter G. Kirchschläger urges countries to emulate Australia and bar young people from addictive online platforms.
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    Democracy Needs Workers

    Bartosz M. Rydliński urges center-left parties in the West to reconnect with voters who increasingly support far-right populists.
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    The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

    Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.
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    Big Money Beat Bigger Money in the US Election

    Hippolyte Fofack warns that the ultra-rich are corroding US democracy, even if they can’t always spend their way to power.
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    Europe’s Economy Is Stalling Out

    Kenneth Rogoff

    As Germany and France head into another year of near-zero growth, it is clear that Keynesian stimulus alone cannot pull them out of their current malaise. To regain the dynamism and flexibility needed to weather US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s largest economies must pursue far-reaching structural reforms.  

     explains why the EU’s long-term economic slump is not likely to end anytime soon.

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