By Anuja Malhotra, Policy Analyst, Ashoka Trust: Rising public-health costs and the significant global disease burden – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic – strengthen the case for the world to move toward ecological restoration. The benefits to planeta

Authored by Josep Borrell and Werner Hoyer: Although a rapid reduction in global greenhouse-gas emissions was already needed to address climate change, the task has become doubly urgent in response to Russia's territorial aggression and weaponization of e

By Seta Tutundjian, Founder, Thriving Solutions: A more resilient, sustainable, and equitable food system must be a pillar of any climate mitigation or adaptation agenda. But the barriers to building one should not be underestimated, especially for countr

By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University: Too often, rich countries deny their historical responsibilities, whether it be for colonialism, slavery, or today's mounting climate damage.

By Joyce Banda, Former President of the Republic of Malawi: At a time when investing in children should be an urgent priority. Many developing-country governments have had to cut their education budgets.

By Pascal Lamy, President of the Paris Peace Forum: Humanity’s continuing failure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions has substantially increased the likelihood of global warming exceeding 1.5°C within the coming decades.

By Antonio Andreoni, Head of Research, UCL Institute:Shaping markets and industries via the right policy mix of targeted government financing and procurement can accelerate the green transition.

By Fatoumata Nafo, Chair of Board of Foundation for Health and Environment in Mali: The world’s two-year struggle against COVID-19 has shown how critical the knowledge and participation of local communities can be in addressing global threats.

By Hussein Tadicha Wario, Executive Director of the Center for R&D in Drylands in Marsabit, Kenya: Between the war in Ukraine and the race for net-zero emissions, the incentive to expand green-energy production is stronger.

By Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor, Freetown, Sierra Leone:Despite widespread recognition that women are underrepresented in climate and conservation fora, the problem persists.

By Nafeez Ahmed, Director of Global Research Communications at RethinkX: The energy, transport, food, information, and materials sectors are all undergoing rapid technological disruption.

By Riccardo Puliti, Vice President for Infrastructure at the World Bank: With the world facing multiple crises, policymakers need to mobilize digital connectivity to improve the daily welfare of the most vulnerable people.

By Nancy Qian, Founding Director of China Econ Lab: China learned from Russia’s post-1991 experience, pursued its economic liberalization with more care. But it ultimately could not avoid the political implications of pro-market policies.

By Saleem H. Ali, Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware: The late Nobel laureate chemist Richard Smalley once argued that humanity's challenges can be overcome by ensuring energy delivery.

By Alessio Terzi, Economist, European Commission: Given the rich world’s longstanding failure to finance climate mitigation and adaptation in the Global South, it is understandable that some developing countries would prioritize their own immediate growth

By Aideé Saucedo Dávila, Climate Negotiator for Tonga, UNIMO: The recent UNOC sent a clear message to the international maritime transportation industry: The current target of halving its emissions by 2050 is insufficient.

By Raghuram G. Rajan, Former Governor, RBI: It is not surprising that governments are groping for new policies to build more resilience and ensure a continuous supply of critical inputs.

By Sofia Monsalve, Secretary-General, FIAN International: As governments seek an agreement on a global plan to halt the rapid loss of the world’s biodiversity, indigenous peoples’, smallholder farmers’, other agroecological communities’ rights are being s

By Sultan Al Jaber, CEO, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company:While renewables accounted for over 80% of all new power generating capacity in 2021, they comprise only 4% of today’s energy mix.

By Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary, UNFCC: Occasionally, a pleasant political surprise encourages policymakers and activists to press on in the fight against global warming.

By Jiang Lin, Adjunct Professor at Dept of Agricultural & Resources Economics at University of California, Berkeley: Although the United States and China have both begun to make significant strides toward carbon-free electricity generation.

By Alexander Kozul-Wright, Researcher, Third World Network: The key takeaway from June’s Ocean Conference was that the UN remains committed to relying on incremental change to protect maritime resources, with private sector firmly in charge.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Former Chief Economist, World Bank: With recent data showing that inflation and inflation expectations have eased, it would be irresponsible for the US Federal Reserve to create much higher unemployment.

By Luca Bergamaschi, Co-Founder, International Politics of ECCO: For decades, Italian governments and political parties have largely neglected the threat that climate change poses to the country’s security and prosperity.

By Catherine McKenna, Former Canadian Environment & Climate Change Minister: If corporations – including even fossil-fuel companies – are now “climate leaders,” fully and loudly committed to the net-zero cause why are emissions still rising?

By Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose: Water-related crises around the world have shown current systems of governance & economic organization are unsuited for world altered by global warming.

By Anand Gopal, Executive Director of Policy Research, Energy Innovation: While America’s Inflation Reduction Act is historic achievement in its own right, its largest benefits will come in the form of global economic spillover effects.

By Bertrand Badré, Former MD, World Bank: By Bertrand Badré, Former MD, World Bank: Overlapping shocks and a breakdown in international cooperation has made crisis management all but impossible at least with the standard tools.

By Gernot Wagner, Climate Economist, Columbia Business School: Climate risks, in particular, have been systematically underestimated, and thus mispriced, for decades.

By Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, Think Tank New America: The Biden administration must make preparing for the direct impact of global warming a much higher priority.

By Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair, International Resource Panel: Owing to the up-front costs of green investments and the international, collaborative nature of setting and achieving climate targets, populists have increasingly exploited the issue for politi

By Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director, UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose: After significant advocacy by poorer countries and civil society, the G20’s pandemic-preparedness fund is being designed to embody more equitable and balanced governan

By Sameh Shoukry, Foreign Affairs Ministers, Eygpt: In the world of rising geopolitical tensions, daunting economic challenges, how can we seize opportunity upcoming UNCCC offers to inspire an approach to mitigation based on trust, justice, equity?

By Nick Butler, Founding Chair, King’s Policy Institute: The recent increase in government intervention in the energy sector is partly a consequence of the huge price spikes resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

By Donald P. Kaberuka, Former President, African Development Bank: COVID-19 has reversed some of the progress made in the fight to eradicate AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in Africa.

By Raghuram G. Rajan, Former Governor, RBI: t is now clear that monetary-policy normalization will be exceedingly difficult and fraught with risk.

By Daniel Russel, Vice President, International Security & Diplomacy: North Korea has launched more than 40 ballistic missiles this year and is reportedly preparing to conduct its seventh nuclear test.

By Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman, Gavekal Dragonomics: The recent near-collapses of the pound, the UK’s government bond market, and its pension system are likely to echo around the world in unexpected ways.

By Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics, University of California: Reconstructing Ukraine’s economy after the war ends will cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

By Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Stockholm Free World Forum: To continue its military gains, Ukraine needs much greater financial support, in addition to a steady supply of arms.

By Minxin Pei, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College: Deng Xiaoping understood that a rules-based system was essential to avoid a repeat of the fanatical terror unleashed under Mao Zedong.

By Todd G. Buchholz, MD, Tiger Management Hedge Fund:America desperately needs a supply-side revolution to unclog its health-care system’s arteries and make up for an increasingly urgent shortage of doctors.

By Michael Spence, A Nobel laureate in economics: After enjoying a long period of deflationary conditions, the global economy is being pushed by a wide range of forces toward a new and more difficult equilibrium.

By Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Director, Institute of Security & International Studies, Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science: During the 2010s, Southeast Asia’s economy was fastest-growing region in the world

By Clemens Fuest, President, Ifo Institute: Europe’s cross-border energy market must remain open, and the European Union should leverage its market power when purchasing gas in third countries.