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The Global Climate-Finance Challenge

LONDON – The dust has now settled after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, but there are still many unanswered questions about how to finance emissions reductions and adaptation. The world will not avoid dangerous levels of climate change without a significant increase in investment in developing

China After Zero-COVID

BEIJING – China’s ability to execute major policies is always impressive, and the 180-degree turn on the zero-COVID strategy that

No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

– S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang HONG KONG – Following a deadly fire in a residential building in

Book Review: “Egypt Until Democracy”

Globalization, rapid growth of science and technology and, most importantly, communication have challenged and even transformed all the moral and

Policy Failure of the US to Address the Covid-19 Issue…

Though American leadership is claiming on that it has done a lot to contain coronavirus and the situation is totally

The Next Global Resource Crisis

LONDON – The West’s dependence on China for so-called critical minerals once worried only a handful of experts and policy

How Developing Countries Can Reach Net Zero

BEIJING – The world’s developing economies are gearing up for a fight ahead of next month’s United Nations Climate Change

The West Needs an Energy and Resource Alliance

COPENHAGEN – The old line that “history does not repeat itself, but often rhymes,” is an apt description of the

The Sirens of Appeasement

TBILISI – Wars are easier to start than to finish, and their finale rarely follows any prescribed script. But if

How to Finance Green Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, DC – To spur development and fight climate change, emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) will need huge amounts of