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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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March 13, 2013
Fossil Fuels
An Enlightening Study on Shale Gas and Water Quality
A team at Resources For the Future (RFF) led by Sheila Olmstead has a neat new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that takes a rigorous look at water pollution due to…
January 24, 2014
China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of January 24, 2014
Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia this week. 1. Report reveals that several of China’s top leaders hold trillions in offshore accounts. …
April 7, 2014
Cybersecurity
What Briefing Chinese Officials on Cyber Really Accomplishes
David Sanger wrote an interesting article in the New York Times about Washington’s efforts to prevent escalating cyberattacks with Beijing. According to Sanger, U.S. officials have tried to allay the…
April 15, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Is Rhodes’ Statue Removal Setting a Bad Precedent?
This is a guest post by John Causey, a private equity practitioner with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa transactions. On April 9, the University of Cape Town (UCT) removed the statue on its main campu…
