An Optimist’s Guide to Climate Action
Now is not the time to stop saying the words “climate change.” Instead, double down on science and communicate the benefits of climate solutions.
Opinion
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Development Demands Reinvention by Local Communities
The next chapter of development will be written through cooperation, courage and optimism.
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It’s Time to FLIP the Script on Climate Action
Addressing climate change has been framed as an expensive obligation with delayed benefits. But what if it saved us money and made us healthier right now?
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Global Development Is No Longer a Purely Public Endeavor
Impact investing is a compelling alternative to public financing or private capital alone because it prioritizes generating social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.
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Response to Authors of Manual on Scientific Evidence
The attorney general of West Virginia argues the removed climate science chapter is a litigation playbook packaged as settled scientific consensus.
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State AGs Ask for Chapter on Climate Science to Be Withdrawn
A group of 27 attorneys general write the chapter in a judges’ manual “places the judiciary firmly on one side of some of the most hotly disputed questions in current litigation”.
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An Open Letter from Authors of the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
Twenty-eight scientists say political pressure to remove a chapter on climate science in a manual for judges is a troubling turn for other disciplines, too.
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U.S. Development Policy Can No Longer Be Just About Aid
In an era of geoeconomic competition, development must also function as statecraft.
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Fine Lines
Introducing a new cartoon column drawing out the complexities of technology and law.
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US Science Can’t Dream Big Without Sustained Funding from Congress
Physicists have an idea for a machine that would build the technological advances of the 22nd century. But they need lawmakers to buy in.