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How to stimulate the economy after lockdown

A US-style ‘helicopter money’ stimulus of direct payments to individuals wouldn't be transformatory in Europe

By Peter Bofinger

Reuters

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Europe’s path to decarbonisation

Is a just transition for Europe realistic? Adam Tooze sets out the challenge to achieve net-zero by 2050

By Adam Tooze

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Germany’s dangerous export fetish

The coronavirus crisis has exposed how dangerous the German economy's over-reliance on exports really is. China shows how to do it better

By Andreas Nölke

Reuters

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The treaty that threatens to derail Europe's Green Deal

When private courts of arbitration can award transnational energy firms billions in compensation for lost profits, climate protection becomes a farce

By Nico Schmidt

Reuters

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The new transatlantic alliance

To make the transatlantic economy a leader in the fight against climate change, Europe should work with US President Biden on a joint CO2 tax

By Metin Hakverdi

Reuters

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Inside China's decarbonisation challenge

Last year, Xi Jinping announced ambitious climate targets. But China's reluctant state apparatus struggles to reconcile high growth and climate policy

By Alexander Kallweit

Reuters

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Credit-rating agencies could derail economic recovery

The world's major private agencies are preventing low-income countries from investing in the recovery. We urgently need an independent public agency

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

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The 'Green Industrial Revolution' is not what it seems

The UK government's ‘green’ recovery plan is thick in rhetoric but thin on substance — and it will fail to create a low-carbon, more equal economy

By Katie Gallogly-Swan, Miriam Brett

Reuters

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Can we change the climate on climate change?

Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel vividly imagines the climate apocalypse. But it's also a hopeful and visionary account of how to stop it

By Karin Pettersson

Reuters

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The climate blueprint that Europe’s social democrats didn’t write

The US democratic socialists' Green New Deal is the vision that Europe’s Social Democrats should have drafted 20 years ago

By Paul Hockenos