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Transboundary water governance
Oped, Published on 04/01/2024
» As recent discussions at COP28 showed, water is increasingly important on the global security and climate agenda. Yet cross-border river governance still remains one of this century's most pressing concerns and an often overlooked geopolitical issue.
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Fragile supply chains will rebuild
News, Published on 27/12/2023
» Pick a single item from an array of shocks and you can see just how fragile global supply chains truly are. But combine climate change, decoupling from China, unprecedented technological development, wars, rising costs and labour shortages, and we now have an amalgam of catalysts that will change global trade for the better.
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The gift of governance
News, Editorial, Published on 21/12/2023
» In a dire attempt to make people feel better, the Srettha Thavisin government is carrying out some New Year gift-giving this month.
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Rethinking our cities' link to water
News, Published on 21/12/2023
» Water holds special symbolic significance in Thai culture, from Loy Krathong to Songkran festivals. But as much as we respect the value of water, we must also recognise that failure to care for our water resources puts our lives and wellbeing at risk.
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IMF must lead climate financing
Oped, Published on 19/12/2023
» With their agreement at COP28 to "transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems", countries have made genuine progress on tackling climate change. But there is still much to do to mobilise the level of financing needed to turn the commitment into reality. International organisations -- especially the International Monetary Fund -- must step up. Though the IMF was relatively slow off the mark in the race to combat climate change, it has made great strides under Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. But it must take its climate leadership much further.
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Mitigating climate change impacts
News, Published on 07/12/2023
» Growing up on a small rice farm in China in the 1960's, my family was keenly aware that any single adverse weather event could wipe out a year's worth of effort. The climate and weather patterns are something a farmer feels in his bones, but changes in these patterns and the extremity of events have, in recent years, shocked rural communities. We never imagined seasons might alter at the pace and scale we see today, bringing losses and damage that undermine years of hard-won rural development.
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Boosting the clean energy push
Oped, Published on 05/12/2023
» The world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against climate change. Either we drastically accelerate the clean-energy transition, or our fast-dwindling chances of preventing global temperatures from surpassing 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels will be destroyed. Few understand the stakes better than Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.
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Water the key to food security
Oped, Published on 11/10/2023
» This year's World Food Day celebrates one of the planet's most precious resources: water. It's essential to life on Earth. It covers the majority of the planet's surface, makes up over 50% of our bodies, helps keep us fed, supports livelihoods and is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Fractures in the multilateralism order
News, Published on 09/10/2023
» The recent global summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), coupled with the special focus on climate change, in New York was a timely barometer of the global temperature of international relations. "Fracture" was the incisive term used at the top of the UN system to describe a state of affairs both potentially and actually ominous in its implications.
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The roots of the global water crisis
Oped, Published on 29/09/2023
» In March 1977, representatives from 116 countries gathered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, for the inaugural United Nations Water Conference. At the time, the event received very little attention. Global politics was dominated by a handful of powerful countries, most of them in temperate regions where water scarcity, severe pollution, and flooding were not considered major issues.
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