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Simon Zadek is Executive Director of NatureFinance.

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  1. Trouble With Carbon Markets
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    Trouble With Carbon Markets

    Mar 1, 2023 Simon Zadek hopes that recent scandals spur broad-based efforts to establish a robust governance framework for offsets.

  2. Legitimate Investors Are Financing Environmental Crime
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    Legitimate Investors Are Financing Environmental Crime

    Feb 3, 2022 Simon Zadek urges banks and regulators to apply anti-money-laundering rules to a broader range of corporate activities.

  3. Financing a Sustainable Global Food System
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    Financing a Sustainable Global Food System

    Sep 14, 2021 Simon Zadek proposes four ways to mobilize private capital behind the transition to viable, equitable production.

  4. Greening Sovereign-Debt Restructuring
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    Greening Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    Aug 12, 2020 Simon Zadek urges creditors to offer better terms to debtors that improve protection of their natural capital.

  5. A Low-Carbon Belt and Road
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    A Low-Carbon Belt and Road

    Mar 28, 2019 Ma Jun & Simon Zadek propose steps to ensure that the coming wave of infrastructure investment doesn't overwhelm climate goals.

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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

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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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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