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What to expect from Biden’s first climate conference (Brookings)

Raman Preet Kaur, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Samantha Gross, Nathan Hultman, Joseph W. Kane, Christina Kwauk, and Sanjay Patnaik This week, President Biden will convene 40 world leaders for a major climate conference....

In the climate battle, focus on the high-emitters (Hindustan Times)

Rahul Tongia There is immense pressure on countries to go big in their climate ambitions. The problem is that we are using similar framings across...

USA – Congress needs gender parity quotas (Brookings)

Richard V. Reeves Good news: the U.S. jumped from 53rd to 30th on the World Economic Forum’s global ranking of gender equality, flanked by Denmark and Holland. The rise...

How do government decisionmakers identify and adopt innovations for scale? (Brookings)

Brad Olsen, Patrick Hannahan, and Gustavo Arcia When it comes to supporting innovations at large scale, governments play a central role. But nonstate actors, such as researchers...

Africa – Figures of the week: Venture capital trends in Africa (Brookings)

Leo Holtz and Christina Golubski Venture capital is an important source of funding for accelerating early-stage startups, empowering entrepreneurs, and encouraging innovations that facilitate economic development, poverty...

USA – The threat posed by deepfakes to marginalized communities (Brookings)

Riana Pfefferkorn When we’re faced with a video recording of an event—such as an incident of police brutality—we can generally trust that the event happened...

Japan – Land scarcity, high construction volume, and distinctive leases characterize Japan’s rental housing markets (Brookings)

The Japanese housing market is characterized by a large construction volume, rapid technological progress, fast depreciation of housing value, a thin secondary market, and...

Spain – Spain’s once-substantial rental market is now one of the smallest in Europe (Brookings)

Fewer than one in four of Spain’s 18.6 million households rents their home, reflecting strong policy bias toward homeownership. Renters are young, have lower incomes, and...

Germany – Strong tenant protections and subsidies support Germany’s majority-renter housing market (Brookings)

Germany is one of the few developed nations with high rentership rates: More than half of all households rent their home. The German government...

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