Policy Innovations The central address for a fairer globalization

A publication of the Carnegie Council

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Featured Ideas

Achim Steiner
Since the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species entered into force in 1983, it has led to agreements to conserve more than 26 creatures, so that future generations can also marvel at these nomads of the natural world.

Can We Build Better Health?

Peter Williams
An open innovation design competition in Haiti has yielded housing prototypes that can improve ventilation and potentially reduce the transmission of infectious diseases.

BRIEFINGS

Top Stories of 2011

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Evan O'Neil
Our top stories this year spanned the range of global issues, with particular focus on energy and climate, global poverty and hunger, and the role of business in society. Thank you again for your dedicated readership. We look forward to the next five years.

The Climate Change Novel: A Faulty Simulator of Environmental Politics

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Adam Trexler
Ultimatums. Floods. Ecotage. More than 200 novels have been written that imagine life in a climate-changed world, and they point to some of the fundamental difficulties we have in articulating a just and sustainable future.

COMMENTARY

Japanese Energy Policy After Fukushima

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Paul J. Scalise
Can Japan afford to maintain a nuclear-free society in the short-to-medium term without risk of rolling blackouts or energy insecurity?

The Globalization of Protest

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Joseph Stiglitz
The protesters are asking for a democracy where people matter more than profits, and a market economy that delivers what it is supposed to within a frame of appropriate regulations.

POLICY LIBRARY

Social Protection Floors for Inclusive Globalization

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Social protection floors are based on the idea that everyone should enjoy income security sufficient enough to live, thrive, and educate themselves. This ILO report shows they are necessary, feasible, and effective.

Towards a Green Economy

This UNEP reports shows increasing evidence of a new economic paradigm in which material wealth is not delivered at the expense of growing environmental risks, ecological scarcities, and social disparities.

Salvaging Durban with Clean Energy Innovation

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It's time to stop pretending we can solve climate change with unenforceable pledges to use fossil fuels a little less, says ITIF. It's time for some new ideas and better tools, such as making innovation central to the Durban negotiations.