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How green are Asia’s post-Covid economic recovery plans?

Stimulus packages to kickstart pandemic-hit economies can either shape a low-carbon future or lock the world into a fossil fuel system. Which countries in Asia are leading the green transition?
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Policy & Finance

New principles to help accelerate the growing global momentum for carbon pricing

New report shows the number of implemented or planned carbon pricing schemes around the world has almost doubled …
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Policy & Finance

IMF urges higher energy taxes to fight climate change

Energy taxes in much of the world are far below what they should be to reflect the harmful …
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Energy

Financial big guns aim at fossil fuels

The multi-billion-dollar global fossil fuel industry might be getting just a little bit worried.

Policy & Finance

IMF, World Bank heads lend clout to climate change efforts

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Policy & Finance

Lagarde says IMF work can contribute to environmental change

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Food & Agriculture

Sahara tomatoes lure graduates as Algeria shifts from oil

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Energy

Myanmar as economic miracle hinges on natural gas bounty: Energy

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Policy & Finance

The IMF's misstep on climate finance

The International Monetary Fund's allocation of $650 billion in special drawing rights in August was welcomed, but its latest proposal for channeling finance to the most climate-vulnerable countries excludes the most needy, and is flawed. By Sara Jane Ahmed and Alicia Barcena IbarraDaniel Titelman
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Policy & Finance

Economics needs a climate revolution

The economics discipline has failed to understand the climate crisis – let alone provide effective policy solutions for it. Change is underway, but it cannot come fast enough. By Gernot Wagner and Tom Brookes
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Policy & Finance

Delivering success at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate

The summit could stoke a collective sense that finally – after decades of negotiations – this is the pivotal year for climate. By Claire Healy and Daniela Schulman
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Policy & Finance

Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest

Special drawing rights could give indebted countries the flexibility to take climate action that benefits everyone. By Shamshad Akhtar and Paul Steele

Policy & Finance

The Global South’s pandemic path to self-reliance

By Syed Munir Khasru

Policy & Finance

The recovery needs development aid

By Kevin Rudd

Policy & Finance

How the pandemic can revolutionise climate policy

By Roland Kupers

Energy

Spend fossil-fuel subsidies on pandemic relief and the poor

By M. Chatib Basri and Rema N. Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken
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UN Reports its Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Journey Towards Climate Neutrality

New Ideas for Harnessing Global Carbon Markets to Confront Climate Change

Sompo Japan Participates in Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Pilot

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