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Amazon to launch first clothing store
Business, Jeffrey Dastin, Published on 21/01/2022
» Amazon.com Inc's recipe for the department store of the future includes algorithmic recommendations and what one corporate director called "a magic closet" in the fitting room.
COP26 falls sadly short of financial 'grand plan'
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 18/11/2021
» The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) fell far short of what is needed for a safe planet, owing mainly to the same lack of trust that has burdened global climate negotiations for almost three decades. Developing countries regard climate change as a crisis caused largely by the rich countries, which they also view as shirking their historical and ongoing responsibility for the crisis. Worried that they will be left paying the bills, many key developing countries, such as India, don't much care to negotiate or strategise.
The G20 and the means to climate safety
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 29/10/2021
» Philosopher Immanuel Kant famously said: "Whoever wills the end also wills… the indispensably necessary means to it that is in his control." Put simply, when we set a goal, we ought to take the actions needed to achieve it. This is an essential maxim for our governments, and it should guide G20 leaders when they meet in Rome tomorrow to confront the climate crisis.
Vaccine producers must step up
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 24/09/2021
» The world stands at a critical juncture of the Covid -19 pandemic. Countries that lack the first round of vaccine coverage are extraordinarily vulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant, and are also seedbeds for new variants that could quickly spread worldwide. The Lancet Covid-19 Commission, which I chair, is working urgently with the United Nations system to strengthen the multilateral response. Governments of countries where vaccines are being produced -- the United States, European Union members, the United Kingdom, India, Russia, and China -- need to cooperate under UN leadership to ensure that a sufficient supply of vaccine doses reaches the poorest countries.
Reimagining a tougher UN system with Taiwan
News, Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Published on 30/08/2021
» After more than 200 million infections and over 4 million deaths and counting, the Covid-19 pandemic has raged across the globe. This has created a profoundly devastating socio-economic impact on our interconnected world, with virtually no countries spared. The pandemic has disrupted global trade, exacerbated poverty, impeded education and compromised gender equality, with middle to low income nations bearing the brunt of the burden.
Xinjiang genocide allegations are unjustified
Asia focus, Jeffrey Sachs and William Schabas, Published on 10/05/2021
» The US government has needlessly escalated its rhetoric against China by claiming that a genocide is being mounted against the Uighur people in the Xinjiang region.
Share the IP rights on Covid-19
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 06/05/2021
» The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for intellectual property (IP) rights, including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight Covid-19. They are absolutely correct. IP for fighting Covid-19 should be waived, and indeed actively shared among scientists, companies and nations.
Donald Trump's last stand for 'apartheid America'
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 29/10/2020
» The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for centuries, though sometimes in mutated form. The long history of America's state-sponsored racism will draw to an end in the coming generation, which is why Mr Trump is so strikingly reactionary in his attempts to prolong it. Yet the damage that Mr Trump's brand of white nationalism could still cause to the US and the world if he wins a second term makes the election easily the most important in modern American history.
Anatomy of the coronavirus collapse
Asia focus, Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu, Published on 27/04/2020
» The world economy is on the precipice of its worst crisis since World War II. Economic activity, financial markets and private-sector confidence are all cratering. And if international cooperation remains at its current level, a far more severe collapse is yet to come.
East-West divide underscored in Covid-19 controls
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 10/04/2020
» East Asian countries are outperforming the United States and Europe in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the outbreak began in China, to which the rest of East Asia is very closely bound by trade and travel. The US and Europe should be learning as rapidly as possible about the East Asian approaches, which could still save vast numbers of lives in the West and the rest of the world.