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Anoushiravan Ehteshami argues that a democratising uprising is underway in Iran and traces its roots to three interrelated cyclones. This is the first in a four-part series…
Emma Workman examines Indigenous Peoples’ role in achieving area-based conservation goals like 30x30.
At the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological…
Idil Boran, in Toronto, argues that delegates at COP15 should take lessons from the climate change process to secure a strong agreement that is based on science and…
With the ‘summit season’ drawing to a close, what is the point, and value of, global summitry? Having just attended the COP27 and G20 summits, Isabelle Zhu-Maguire and Tom Chodor…
Danika Hotham reflects on her experience of COP27 and why, despite its many flaws, civil society must continue to make the annual journey to the summit.
The Conference
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We live in an age of political turbulence amid uncertainty about pending disasters. Whether dealing with fragile public finances, pandemic risk, or ecological collapse, humanity…
From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics by Adam B. Lerner. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp., £64 hardcover…
Henry Kwan argues that a global standardisation of Covid-19 measures is sorely needed.
Currently, national policies in many countries take a hands-off or delegatory…
After a tough 2022, China seeks to move toward recovery in 2023, amid stagnation in the US and deep recession in the Eurozone.
Battered by domestic challenges and disruptive…
Florian Weigand introduces his new book Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan (Columbia University Press, 2022), looking at how legitimacy is built and lost…
Spent a fascinating hour this week shooting the breeze with Nikolai Hegertun and Petter Skjæveland from Norad, the Norwegian aid agency. They’d got in touch to discuss some of the…
Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Alex Glennie, and Courtney Savie Lawrence argue that COP27 shows that a more inclusive approach to innovation is needed.
COP27 closed with a…
Not so long ago, Australia was known for its booming economy and balanced foreign policy. Today its economy is stagnating, while the US Big Defense casts a dark shadow over its…
Finance for Loss and Damage came onto the negotiating agenda at COP27 in Egypt – climate researcher Lily Salloum Lindegaard argues that this has only made the delay tactics by…
Maha Azzam argues that developed countries' quest to decarbonise puts the welfare of others' citizens and societies above notions of human rights or democracy.
COP…