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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 wonks. Now, the anxiety has gone mainstream, capturing headlines and becoming the subject of a BBC documentary series. But we have yet to answer adequately the most important question: What should we do

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

Health Solidarity Is Health Security

ABUJA – Kicking off the United Nations’ second annual Sustainable Development Goals Moment last month, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra

Internal Chaos in the US is Demonstrating the Weakness of…

Most of US politicians, experts and policymakers reiterate that their democratic model is the best in the world and the

The COP of No Return

Some fear that this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference – to be held here on November 6-18 – will

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

The Implementation COP

ADDIS ABABA – This November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) will come at a time of economic and geopolitical

Fighting Polio to the Finish

WASHINGTON, DC – When I took my children to receive their polio vaccines a few years ago, I thought about