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18 Months to Save the Planet: BBC News

Matt McGrath July 25, 2019
The world, despite three decades of warnings, has procrastinated on climate change. To protect the planet, the world should take decisive steps to reduce carbon emissions before the end of 2020, some researchers suggest, and even then restoration will not be immediate. “One of the understated headlines in last year's IPCC report was that global emissions of carbon dioxide must peak by 2020...

The Amazon Belongs to Everyone: Project Syndicate

Danielle Hanna Rached July 23, 2019
Leaders often reject advice on how to manage development or resources within their national borders, yet the effects of pollution or resource depletion can have global consequences. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro contends that the Amazon is Brazil’s to exploit. “His promotion of the rainforest’s development and attacks on environmental regulation have led, for example, to the expansion of...

West Loses Appeal for FDI: Wall Street Journal

Tom Fairless and Paul Hannon July 23, 2019
Populist rhetoric, heightened security reviews and global tensions contribute to reduced foreign investment in the West, report Tom Fairless and Paul Hannon for the Wall Street Journal. Foreign investment in the United States fell by 9 percent and 30 percent in Germany. The writers point out that FDI data is volatile, easily distorted by a small number of large transactions. Still, UN statistics...

Global Religious Persecution: Jakarta Post

Endy M. Bayuni July 22, 2019
Religious freedom gives people the right to think as they choose, and too many governments and religions regard such free thought as dangerous. The US State Department brought together more than 1,000 government representatives and religious leaders from more than 130 nations for a campaign to end persecution of individuals for religious beliefs. “In the decade after the end of the Cold War, the...

As the US Reached the Moon, So Did the World: DW

Zulfikar Abbany July 20, 2019
Around the world, many still feel chills remembering the reports from July 20, 1969, that two men had landed and walked on the Moon. Zulfikar Abbany, writing for Deutsche Welle, describes how the American story is “a Cold War story, too — of a Free World against a closed, communist world. And in that sense, it's a global story.” The Apollo space program relied on engineers, technicians and...

Dollar Strength Not Born in the US: Financial Times

Bhanu Baweja July 18, 2019
The US dollar remains strong despite declining growth and bond yields in the United States and the world. Global markets may have more control than the US government over the value of the dollar. “Faced with weak growth in the rest of the world, investors gravitate to US bonds and defensive equities, and the dollar strengthens,” explains Bhanu Baweja for Financial Times. The Trump...

One World, Two Systems: Times of India

Nayan Chanda July 16, 2019
The world’s major economies have extraordinary power to promote policy initiatives though the G20 summit in Osaka may be “remembered for ushering in the birth of a ‘one world two systems’ global order,” explains Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal’s founding editor, in his Times of India column. He adds that growing rivalry on multiple levels could make conflict more likely. The Chinese and US presidents...