Economists have long treated globalisation as a trade-off between openness and national autonomy. In 1933 John Maynard Keynes ...
Three years on, the data confirm that the window has closed. The latest Emissions Gap Report of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP) finds that the relentless rise in emissions since 2020 rules out ...
For senior consultants, the challenge is not just to respond to events but to anticipate them. The Economist joins the dots ...
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The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement
Against long odds, in the Paris agreement—the negotiations for which I led as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—they committed to limit global heating, protect the ...
But Changxing Island shows it is more realistic to expect another path—namely, that other countries will find it ever harder to displace China in global supply chains. This story could be told about ...
Today the marches are smaller and, more importantly, climate policies are being rolled back. The Economist recently called this reversal a “greenlash”, noting that fossil-fuel-driven business-as-usual ...
The World Ahead 2026 will be the 40th edition of The Economist ’s future-gazing annual, published every November since 1986, to provide a guide to the trends, themes and people likely to shape the ...
In theory, stopping the deforestation of the Amazon is among the cheapest ways of curbing global warming. Brazil’s “Legal ...
Europe’s first reserve currency was the tetradrachm, upon which was inscribed an owl. The symbol of wisdom was intended to inspire trust in the rulers of ancient Athens. Indeed, the bird features on ...
T HE MEETING between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on October 30th was the first time the two leaders had sat down together in ...
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