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Connecting communities that protect their coasts can yield huge benefits but funding is not flowing to the right places.
Green policy targets environmental outcomes, while industry and trade focus on jobs and growth. When misaligned, green efforts stall and competitiveness weakens.
Policy & Finance
A message from Islamabad to New York: The demand for tax justice is an unstoppable global tide
On 27 January, a landmark ruling on high-earning individuals and large corporations by Pakistan's newly-established Federal Constitutional Court provided a "powerful blueprint" in seeking an overhaul of the international tax system.
Trump’s dismantling of USAID and deep foreign aid cuts are forcing international NGOs to shrink, localise and seek new funding models – with profound consequences for global health and humanitarian work.
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26 December 2025
Carbon & Climate
How insurance can transform our resilience to climate shocks
15 November 2025
Policy & Finance
Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act
19 August 2025
Corporate Responsibility
Building inclusive economies: Lessons from East Asia’s social innovation ecosystems
22 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Financing for development must account for women
16 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
24 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Aid cuts could erase women from public life
9 January 2025
Carbon & Climate
Ban solar geoengineering
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21 December 2023
Policy & Finance
How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet
24 October 2023
Policy & Finance
Taking investment treaties to the world court over climate
28 August 2023
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Policy & Finance
Winning the fight for women's land rights
6 July 2023
Policy & Finance
The energy transition is fuelling a power transition
20 March 2023
Policy & Finance
If not SVB, who? Climate tech firms need more support than ever
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