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Oceans at Risk

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Climate change, pollution, overfishing, and increasing demand for resources are only a few of the hazards jeopardizing the health of the world's oceans and marine ecosystems. What must be done to move ocean conservation to the top of the global policy agenda?

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  1. A Year of Ocean Regeneration
    Ocean wave

    A Year of Ocean Regeneration

    Feb 23, 2016 Isabella Lövin, et al. hope that growing awareness of the challenges facing our oceans translates into effective action.

  2. Somalia’s New Pirates
    Fish skeleton.

    Somalia’s New Pirates

    Oct 27, 2015 Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urges the international community to help Somalia combat illegal fishing.

  3. Ending Rogue Fishing
    Fish in a bucket.

    Ending Rogue Fishing

    Oct 5, 2015 Maria Damanaki, et al. call for closer collaboration among the US, the EU, and Japan to combat illicit operators.

  4. A Fish Called Development
    Lung fish.

    A Fish Called Development

    Oct 1, 2015 Oby Ezekwesili, et al. urge leaders to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies at the WTO meeting in December.

  5. Islam, Faith, and Climate Change
    Muslim women in hijab Asim Bharwani/Flickr

    Islam, Faith, and Climate Change

    Sep 22, 2015 Noor Al Hussein highlights the principle of environmental stewardship that all major religions teach.

  6. China and the Deep Blue Sea
    sparkly islands land reclamation project Tonglian/ZumaPress

    China and the Deep Blue Sea

    Sep 8, 2015 James Borton & Nguyen Chu Hoi emphasize the environmental impact of Chinese land reclamation efforts in the Spratly Islands.

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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

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    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.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

     considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    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.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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