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When the news is wrong about my homeland
Oped, José González Vargas, Published on 11/12/2025
» The people of Venezuela conjure contradictory images, particularly for those living in the Global North. We're starved and oppressed masses under a totalitarian thumb, but also arrogant and pigheaded émigrés living in golden exile from Miami to Madrid. More recently, we are hordes of criminals, the scum of the Earth, flooding into the United States. Where's the truth? Where's the lie?
A prescription for healthier policy
Oped, Kemi Adeosun, José Antonio González Anaya and Trevor Manuel, Published on 06/09/2022
» A healthy population is both a cause and a result of economic growth and development. But achieving both today requires finance ministers to leave their comfort zones.
EU carbon tax hurts poorer states
News, Miriam González Durántez & Calli Obern, Published on 27/06/2022
» In July 2021, the European Commission did something that no other major governing body had ever attempted: It tied trade policy to climate policy. Reaching the European Union's goal of cutting net greenhouse-gas emissions by 55% by 2030 will require the EU to reduce emissions both at home and beyond its borders.
Reeling in a deal to save the seas
Oped, Helen Clark, Arancha González, Susana Malcorra & James Michel, Published on 02/12/2021
» The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet's surface, produces half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions of people, and provides hundreds of millions of jobs. It also plays a major role in mitigating climate change: over 80% of the global carbon cycle passes through the ocean. But this precious natural resource is not invincible. Despite all the benefits it affords us, the ocean today faces unprecedented man-made crises that threaten its health and its ability to sustain life on Earth.