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Economy and ecology

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

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Economy and ecology

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

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Economy and ecology

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

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Economy and ecology

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

Economy and ecology

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

Reuters

Economy and ecology

China takes the climate stage

China's commitment to carbon neutrality by 2060 is the most dramatic move in climate politics since the Paris Agreement

By Adam Tooze

Reuters

Economy and ecology

An EU-MENA deal for green hydrogen could be a serious win-win

The EU's failed solar strategy saw China capture the market. It needs to not repeat the same mistake with green hydrogen

By Jonathan Walters

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Pandemic policy must be climate policy

The early Covid-19 response focussed on 'flattening the curve'. The same logic should be applied to climate action today

By Renzo Guinto

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The MENA region's ‘green hydrogen rush’

Germany and the EU launched ambitious ‘green’ hydrogen plans. To satisfy demand, all eyes are now on the MENA region

By Franziska Wehinger, Saad Raad