Featured Ideas
INNOVATIONS
| It's High Time for an International Environmental Court | ||
Subject matter expertise. Compulsory jurisdiction. Standing for non-state actors. Precise and enforceable language. It's time to consider a court for the environment. |
| Investing 2.0: Assessing True Sustainability | ||
We need to develop investment strategies explicitly tied to objective, science-based planetary boundaries and local ecological thresholds. |
| Innovation in Development Finance | ||
Over the last six years, roughly $6 billion has been allotted to innovative sources of development financing, and some recent proposals promise to raise far more. |
| BRIEFINGS | ||
| The War for Wildlife: Dispatches from Wildlife Conservation Society | ||
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| We Need a Better Measure of GDP in Poor Countries | ||
If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth in poor countries, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid? |
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| Thought Leader: Tomas Sedlacek | ||
Economists worship efficiency, profit, computability, numbers, growth, and wealth. But Tomas Sedlacek thinks the time of economists as priests is coming to an end. |
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| COMMENTARY | ||
| A New Development Bank for Infrastructure and Sustainability | ||
The BRICs are financing infrastructure and sustainable development at home and in other developing countries. |
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| Every Day We Put the State on Trial | ||
Art bears a unique responsibility in the search for truth, writes Ai Weiwei as he prepares a budding Chinese civil society to imagine change. |
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| Social Covenants Must Precede Social Contracts | ||
Fragile states that do not first forge a social covenant will later find it difficult to codify justice in a social contract. |
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| POLICY LIBRARY | ||
| Breaking the Binary | ||
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| Oceans of Innovation | ||
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| Global Norms as Public Goods | ||
Global interdependence demands that we nurture trust, strengthen the fragile fabric of global norms, and forge a sense of global civics. |
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