Antara Haldar
advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.
rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.
shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.
发自北京——尽管法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙(Emmanuel Macron)在近期召开的新全球融资契约峰会上推出了一个改革全球金融体系的“路线图”,但他所提出的改革并不足以调动减缓气候变化所需规模的私人资本。造成这种情况的一个关键原因在于路线图在很大程度上未能解决阻碍养老基金和其他大型机构投资者与多边开发银行联手运作的障碍。虽然增加外币担保和汇集货币风险的拟议条款很有帮助,但这些可能还不够。
当今全球气候融资的一个关键问题在于只有其中一小部分资金流向了发展中国家。根据国际能源署的估算,如果要在2050年前实现净零排放,这些经济体在清洁能源方面的资本支出必须从2020年的不足1500亿美元增加到2030年的每年超过1万亿美元。而其他机构的估算数字则更高。
约70%的清洁能源投资需要来自私人来源。目前高收入国家有81%的绿色投资由私营部门提供资金,但这个数字在发展中国家仅为14%,同时发展中国家的融资成本可能是高收入国家的七倍。
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