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Woochong Um is CEO of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet.

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  1. What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean
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    What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Jan 9, 2025 Thiago Barral & Woochong Um urge policymakers to work with key stakeholders to accelerate the uptake of renewables.

  2. Saving the Faltering Energy SDG
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    Saving the Faltering Energy SDG

    Aug 8, 2024 Woochong Um warns that the world is not on track to achieve universal access to sustainable energy by 2030.

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    Is It the Hour of Europe Again?

    Daniel Gros urges European leaders to support Ukraine, politically and financially, if Donald Trump abandons it.
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    Are High-Skill Immigrants a Problem?

    Daron Acemoglu

    The H-1B visa debate within Donald Trump’s Silicon Valley/MAGA coalition raises some important questions for how the United States should think about education and technology in an increasingly globalized knowledge economy. While high-skill immigration can deliver win-win outcomes, there are no guarantees that it will.

     highlights some underappreciated risks of policies like the United States’ H-1B visa program.
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    Fundamentalist Perverts

    Slavoj Žižek

    Like Islamic extremists, Russian President Vladimir Putin wraps himself in the garb of religious orthodoxy in order to present himself as an authentic exponent of traditional values. Yet one need only consider the lives of genuine spiritual fundamentalists to see this ruse for what it really is.

     regards most violent religious conservatism as merely an inauthentic expression of resentment.
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    What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Thiago Barral & Woochong Um urge policymakers to work with key stakeholders to accelerate the uptake of renewables.
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    Subsistence Is Not Enough

    Kweilin Ellingrud, et al. highlight the private sector’s potential role in improving affordability and promoting shared prosperity.
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    Europe Needs a Defense Production Act

    Nicu Popescu urges EU member states to bolster their defense capabilities to guard against future Russian aggression.
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    What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do

    Dani Rodrik argues that import duties are neither an all-purpose tool, as Donald Trump believes, nor a purposeless one.
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    Could Trump’s Tariffs Help Democratize China?

    Yi Fuxian thinks that China will have to shift its focus from running trade surpluses to strengthening the middle class.
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    A Retrospective on Trump’s First Year Back

    Jeffrey Frankel imagines the economic and geopolitical consequences we might be facing in January 2026.

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