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Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres

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3 videos & podcasts

Christiana Figueres, a founding partner of Global Optimism, is a co-author of the bestselling book The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis, and a co-presenter of the Outrage + Optimism podcast. She was executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010-16, overseeing the landmark Paris agreement on climate change, adopted by 190 countries and the European Union.

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    The Energy Price Roller Coaster

    Kenneth Rogoff

    In the longer term, oil and gas prices look set to rise unless investment picks up sharply, which seems unlikely given current policy guidance. Giant waves of supply and demand shocks will likely continue to roil energy markets and the global economy.

     predicts further waves of supply and demand shocks in global oil and gas markets.
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    US Democracy Under Concerted Attack

    George Soros

    The American public has been alarmed and aroused by the US Supreme Court's growing extremism. But voters need to recognize the Court's radical majority for what it is: part of a carefully laid plan to turn the US into a repressive regime.

     fears that the radicalization of the US Supreme Court is part of a larger plan to create a repressive regime.

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