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Energy experts: Reaching net-zero by 2050 relies on these 7 things (WEF)

Dolf Gielen - Director, IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Ricardo Gorini - Economist, PUC-RJ Several steps must be taken to achieve...

How the pandemic has changed our use of public transport (WEF)

Sonia Elks - Journalist, Reuters Concerns about COVID-19 mean more people are using cars instead of public transport, according to a new report. Too many cars...

What the cyber-attack on the US oil and gas pipeline means and how to increase security (WEF)

Algirde Pipikaite - Lead, Strategic Initiatives, World Economic Forum Filipe Beato - Lead, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum Georges De Moura - Head of Industry...

USA – Protecting democracy and containing autocracy (Brookings)

Michael Hais, Doug Ross, and Morley Winograd Democracy has been under increasing assault in the U.S. over the course of this century. Sixty percent of white working...

USA – Republicans in Congress are out of step with the American public on climate (Brookings)

Samantha Gross Amajority of Americans understand that climate change is a problem. A recent poll found that about six in 10 adults in the United States say...

Detecting and mitigating bias in natural language processing (Brookings)

Aylin Caliskan Unsupervised artificial intelligence (AI) models that automatically discover hidden patterns in natural language datasets capture linguistic regularities that reflect human biases, such as...

USA – Barriers to achieving US climate goals are more political than technical (Brookings)

Samantha Gross On Earth Day, April 22, President Joe Biden hosted a global summit on climate change to emphasize that the United States is back...

India – Will Modi’s push for economic self-reliance succeed? (East Asia Forum)

Suman Bery, Wilson Center India has pursued two linked objectives since its independence and partition in 1947: to restore the country’s standing as one of...

USA/Pacific/China – US Pacific Deterrence Initiative too little, too late to counter China (East Asia Forum)

Hugh White, ANU The US–China rivalry has many dimensions, but at its heart is a strategic contest over primacy in the Western Pacific. Although this...

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