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Climate health needs forest care
Oped, Tasso Azevedo & Ilona Szabó, Published on 10/05/2023
» Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon. He also revived partnerships to amplify financing of forest protection and announced a presidential summit of Amazon Basin countries to be held in Belem in August. Mr Lula is determined to accelerate global cooperation to protect the world's largest tropical forest, including by leveraging the newly capitalised Amazon Fund which is supported by Norway and Germany. President Lula and his environment minister, Marina da Silva, have made the protection and preservation of the Amazon a priority.
Tax havens are fuelling autocracy
Oped, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub, Published on 23/02/2023
» People have been trying to dodge paying taxes since time immemorial, but globalisation has turned tax avoidance and evasion, as well as money laundering, into a lucrative business model. Over the past few decades, offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Cyprus, and Ireland have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to conceal profits and private wealth on an unprecedented scale.