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Policy & Finance
The next era of reform must be about capability
Economic development should no longer be measured solely by how much finance is mobilised or how much fiscal space is created. It must also be judged by whether countries emerge more capable of setting their own priorities, responding to challenges, and seizing new opportunities to shape their own future.
Carbon & Climate
Who is responsible for Nepal’s tragedy?
The devastating floods in Nepal demonstrate what happens when reckless development puts climate-vulnerable communities in harm’s way. They also highlight a climate-finance system that is unable to provide the funds countries need in the immediate aftermath of such disasters.
In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the worst hit by floods. The failure was not forecasting, but what happened – or didn’t – after the alarms were raised.
Food & Agriculture
How to feed ten billion people
With the world’s population expected to reach ten billion by mid-century, agriculture must produce more with less – every season, everywhere. The knowledge and tools to end and prevent food insecurity are already in hand, but they have yet to be used wisely and at scale.
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Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund
16 May 2023
Carbon & Climate
We can stop disaster risk spiralling out of control
10 May 2023
Policy & Finance
We need creative solutions to the sovereign debt and climate crises
16 February 2023
Carbon & Climate
How to prevent humanitarian crises
31 October 2022
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Carbon & Climate
There are no ‘natural disasters’
7 June 2022
Carbon & Climate
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