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Holding multinational corporations accountable for human rights
By Carlos López - Oct 23, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 23, 2021 21:36
GENEVA — At the end of October, an intergovernmental working group will meet again to push for an international treaty governing multination ...
Accountability for climate catastrophes
By Vinod Thomas - Oct 20, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 20, 2021 23:49
SINGAPORE — Scientific evidence can now link specific weather disasters to human-induced climate change. ...
Central banking with a straight face
By Philip Turner - Oct 19, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 19, 2021 22:13
BASEL — How often have you heard that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has a dual mandate to promote both price stability and maximum employment ...
What developing countries need to reach net zero
By V. Shankar - Oct 13, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 13, 2021 23:43
DUBAI — The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the planet will warm by 1.5ºC by 2040 unless urgent ...
The least bad option for Afghanistan
By Richard Ponzio - Oct 12, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 12, 2021 23:04
WASHINGTON, DC — After the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York last month, the UN is being asked to take on an outsize role ...
Cryptocurrencies' next stage
By Aleh Tsyvinski - Oct 10, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 10, 2021 23:24
NEW HAVEN — Regulators around the world are cracking down on cryptocurrencies. China has banned them. ...
Transport's make-or-break decade
By Kris Peeters - Oct 10, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 10, 2021 23:24
BRUSSELS — Pick any sector of the European economy, and you will find a lot of companies cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. ...
Prudence over sustainability
By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - Oct 10, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 10, 2021 23:23
CHICAGO — “Sustainability” is an increasingly popular term used to signal one’s virtue in contemporary public discourse, but it is a poor ba ...
A facelift for Facebook
By Steven Hill - Oct 09, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 09, 2021 21:33
SAN FRANCISCO — If the testimony of whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist, before a US Senate subcommittee told us ...
A second chance for global development
By Rebeca Grynspan - Oct 07, 2021 - Last updated at Oct 07, 2021 19:12
GENEVA – Second chances are not common in this world, but one is arriving now. ...

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