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For the first time, a great power has moved to price transboundary climate-driven harms–massive wildfires–and extract compensation unilaterally. What was previously a development, insurance, or emissions-accounting issue is now a security and trade dispute between two G7 economies, setting a precedent that others may try to follow.
A Peruvian mountain farmer lost his legal case against energy giant RWE, climate litigators lost the battle but not the war.
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.
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.
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