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Policy & Finance
How trade deals can save nature
Environmental conservation is among the most important, universally shared imperatives the world faces, and market access is one of the few carrots available in international politics. By linking tariffs to deforestation, the EU and others can create trade agreements that deliver more conservation and more gains from trade.
Policy & Finance
A new paradigm for global health financing
As aid flows decline, more countries are articulating a new vision in which health financing would build on national resources, answer to domestic priorities, and remain accountable to their own citizens. Such a change is long overdue, and it can be achieved by pursuing reforms in three areas.
Partnerships with China, not protectionism, will determine affordable, interoperable and equitable global decarbonisation and energy security.
Carbon & Climate
Malaysia emits like the rich but speaks like the poor
Malaysia faces political, economic and constitutional barriers to curb carbon emission. As the climate bill nears Parliament, can policy finally match the country's carbon reality?
All #tax Opinion
29 July 2026
Carbon & Climate
Will the US climate war with Canada become global?
28 July 2026
Policy & Finance
Why Asia must fight for global tax justice at the UN
30 April 2026
2 February 2026
3 October 2025
18 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Tariff shockwaves: Indonesia’s export strategy under fire
13 May 2025
7 May 2025
Food & Agriculture
Why Donald Trump’s trade tariffs are a threat to global food security
24 April 2025
7 March 2025
27 January 2025
Policy & Finance
Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance
5 September 2024
Policy & Finance
Climate impacts are crippling insurance and Big Oil must pay up
2 May 2024
Policy & Finance
The elusive inflection point in impact investing
12 April 2024
Carbon & Climate
Taxing polluters is the key to climate justice
26 February 2024
24 November 2023
Carbon & Climate
How to salvage COP28
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News / Policy & Finance
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