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Hydrogen power is safe and here to stay
A decade ago, hydrogen was heralded as an emerging clean energy source. But despite extensive promotion and governmental support from world leaders, including former US President Barack O...
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We need to protect 30% of the planet by 2030. This is how we can do it
At a time when the world is grappling with meeting the Paris Climate Agreement and trying to prevent the sixth mass extinction on Earth, an international team of scientists has published ...
金融和货币体系
Don't underestimate the power of the fintech revolution
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经济增长
This is how China and the US can have a peaceful trading relationship
Today’s Sino-American impasse is rooted in “hyper-globalism,” under which countries must open their economies to foreign companies, regardless of the consequences for their growth strateg...
自然与生物多样性
6 pressing questions about beef and climate change, answered
Beef and climate change are in the news these days, from cows' alleged high-methane farts (fact check: they're actually mostly high-methane burps) to comparisons with cars and airplanes (...
全球合作
An economist explains the pros and cons of globalization
Every industrial revolution has driven a wave of globalization. The first wave was driven by innovations such as the steam engine and the industrial weaving machine; the second by the ass...
经济增长
Gita Gopinath: Why this is a delicate moment for the global economy
A year ago, economic activity was accelerating in almost all regions of the world. One year later, much has changed. The escalation of US–China trade tensions, needed credit tightening in...
公平、多样性和包容性
Is it time for a 'true global currency'?
The International Monetary Fund’s global reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right, is one of the most underused instruments of multilateral cooperation. Turning it into a true global curr...
气候行动
5 ways cities can use emerging technologies to fight climate change
Even if the world adheres to the commitments set out by the Paris Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic are still expected to rise by 3-5°C by 2050, a UN Environment report conclud...
气候行动
An economist explains how to go carbon neutral in our lifetime
Fear and despair are an understandable reaction to climate change. Unless we radically change the way we live, we're on the path to a terrifying future of wild storms, scorched earth and ...
健康与医疗系统
4 radical shifts required to achieve universal health coverage worldwide
World Health Day 2019 lands on 7 April, with the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring universal health coverage (UHC) as this year’s focus. The choice of theme is fitting given UHC’s...
金融和货币体系
What lessons can we learn from 200 years of public debt?
Sovereign debt is a Janus-faced asset class. In the best of times, it relaxes the domestic constraint on saving, smooths consumption, and finances investment. Investors see it as a safe h...
健康与医疗系统
Most CEOs don’t have a global health strategy. That needs to change
Why is it that only 9% of the world’s Fortune 500 companies have a global health strategy, while 74% have an environmental strategy?
深度地理
Four lessons from sub-Saharan Africa on building effective business ecosystems
Rapid change requires constant adaptation in the face of emerging challenges and customer needs. This can often best be achieved by ‘co-creation’ with key stakeholders; in this context, c...
经济增长
The Chinese economy is slowing down – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing
The days of 10% annual growth for the Chinese economy have ended, as was inevitable. But there is good reason to believe that the real story is not the slowdown, but the shift in Chinese ...