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Earth Breaches 1.5 °C Climate Limit

Posted Jan 17, 2025| by Nature

Earth’s average temperature has climbed more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in 2024. Climate scientists announced the breach, signalling that the world has failed, at least temporarily, to avoid crossing the threshold set as an ambition in the Paris climate... Read More

Migration Can Work for All - A Plan for Replacing a Broken Global System

Posted on Jan 14, 2025 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Foreign Affairs

An estimated 43 million people worldwide currently qualify as refugees, with poverty being a key driver of the recent, unprecedented uptick in irregular immigration. In 2023, climate-related disasters displaced a record 26.4 million people, more than those displaced by conflict, suggests Amy Pope in this... Read More

Gender Apartheid Is a Crime Against Humanity

Posted on Jan 16, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Jackson Hole Economics

As the Taliban escalates its oppression of women and girls, the international community must hold Afghanistan’s leaders accountable. Recognizing gender apartheid as a crime under international law would be a historic step toward ending the systemic discrimination against women, suggests Gordon Brown in this publication... Read More

What Private Capital Cannot Do Alone: The Future of Global Infrastructure Development

Posted on Jan 17, 2025 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

A looming debt crisis across the Global South has left governments without the budgetary resources to co-invest in critical infrastructure alongside partners in the Global North, and to afford the education, health, and adaptation expenditures needed to ensure sustainable, equitable, and growth-enhancing industrial development. In... Read More

Dollars and Sense: America’s Interest in a Ukrainian Victory

Posted on Jan 16, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by American Enterprise Institute

Among the most crucial decisions the US must make will be whether and how to continue aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Elaine McCusker, Frederick Kagan, and Richard Sims argue in their paper for the American Enterprise Institute that though many US citizens... Read More

The Case for an African Payments Union: Lessons from the European Experience

Posted on Jan 16, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Although there are international debates around changing the global financial system, Africa cannot wait for them to be settled. What helped Europe recover from a devastating world war could help Africa recover from the turbulence of recent decades. Africa cannot afford to wait for the... Read More

Greenland – A New American State?

Posted on Jan 17, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Open Canada

General elections for Greenland’s parliament, the Inatsisartut, are set for this spring and US President elect Trump’s renewed interest in purchasing Greenland will undoubtedly become part of the electoral debate, notes Jan Top Christensen in this Open Canada article. There have already been discussions about... Read More