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Carbon & Climate
How insurance can transform our resilience to climate shocks
From Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean to floods in Southeast Asia, insurance is an underused tool for adaptation to climate extremes.
Progress is fragile and 2026 must be the year of action and accountability on gender rights.
Manufacturing
Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?
COP30 agreed to triple adaptation finance, but the fashion industry needs adaptation measures now.
Policy & Finance
India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities
Economic liberalisation in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.
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Policy & Finance
Financing for development must account for women
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India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias
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How to defuse the climate-debt time bomb for small island states
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Food & Agriculture
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Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
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Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
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Policy & Finance
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