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Bogolo Kenewendo is Special Adviser and Africa Director for the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions.

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  1. The Case for Mission-Driven Climate Finance
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    The Case for Mission-Driven Climate Finance

    Feb 20, 2024 Bogolo Kenewendo argues that Africa has the ideas, ambition, and capacity to implement green solutions – just not the funding.

  2. How to Close Africa’s Climate-Finance Gap
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    How to Close Africa’s Climate-Finance Gap

    Sep 4, 2023 Mahmoud Mohieldin, et al. propose five ways to channel investment to the countries most vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

  3. The Climate-Security Failure
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    The Climate-Security Failure

    Mar 3, 2023 Bogolo Kenewendo warns that governments are not doing enough to address the biggest threat facing humanity today.

  4. The Key to Africa’s Economic Revolution
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    The Key to Africa’s Economic Revolution

    Jul 18, 2022 Bogolo Kenewendo argues that the world’s largest free-trade area will benefit the continent only if its people know about it.

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    Reckoning With a New Authoritarian Bloc

    Joschka Fischer considers the implications of a northern Asian alliance that exists primarily to challenge American hegemony.
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    Is Europe Too Big for Further Enlargement?

    Ana Palacio warns that even if candidates meet accession criteria, decision-making processes would need to be reformed.
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    The Sino-American Trade War Benefits China’s Competitors

    Arvind Subramanian warns that escalating protectionism, while dangerous, could end up helping developing countries like India.
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    Is the Quad Becoming a Potemkin Alliance?

    Brahma Chellaney fears that US President Joe Biden’s conciliatory approach toward China is undermining Indo-Pacific security.
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    The High Costs of the New US Tariffs on Chinese EVs

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

    Every time one set of protectionist measures against China disappoints, the United States escalates its economic war in the hope that additional restrictions will prove more effective. Yet by slapping massive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, America has laid bare its own hypocrisy and economic vulnerabilities.

     laments the Biden administration's embrace of costly, futile efforts to outcompete low-cost rivals.
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    How G7 Leaders Can Unlock Financing for Africa

    William Ruto

    With many African countries trapped in perpetual cycles of debt, financing investment in sustainable development has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible. The situation demands that wealthy countries step up and offer debt relief and cancellation, in addition to more concessional and long-term financing.

     urges wealthy countries to help bring the global financial system into line with the developing world's needs.
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    The Threat of Trumpflation and a Fed War

    J. Bradford DeLong thinks monetary hawks should be more worried about the return of a populist demagogue to the White House.
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    Is China Too Old to Get Rich?

    Yi Fuxian explains why the country’s rising median age is at the root of its current malaise.
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    The Dangerous Retreat into Protectionism

    Carl Bildt warns that nothing good will come from a more deeply fragmented global economy.

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