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Fintech/Sustainable Development. Fintech for Good: Governance Mechanisms for Sustainable Development (Sep Pashang, Olaf Weber, CIGI)

Financial technology (fintech) for good can help to achieve sustainable development through environmental, social and governance investing, and through financial inclusion initiatives to address...

Canada. It’s Been 20 Years Since 9/11: Canada Needs a New National Security Policy (Aaron Shull, CIGI)

A man walks through the 9/11 Empty Sky memorial at sunrise across from New York's Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in Liberty...

China. China’s decarbonising power system: out with the old, in with the new (Jiang Li, China Dialogue)

A mobile energy storage device in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. National agencies recently said that a pricing mechanism for the installed capacity of grid-side storage...

Brazil. The Brazil nut gatherers of the Amazon (Flávia Milhorance, China Dialogue)

Cooperacre’s Brazil nut plant in Rio Branco, Acre. Families in the Brazilian Amazon sell about 40,000 tonnes of Brazil nuts each year. (Image: Flávia...

China. How did Chinese media cover the Henan flood? (Yao Zhe, China Dialogue)

Coverage of July's floods in Henan points to the need for the media to link extreme weather events with climate risks (Image: Li An...

China. China’s shifting overseas energy footprint (Ma Xinyue, China Dialogue)

A farmer is watering crops in the vicinity of the Indramayu 1 power plant in West Java, financed by a consortium of Chinese and...

9/11/Russia. Russia and 9/11: Roads not taken (James Nixey, Chatham House)

On 12 September 2001, Russian president Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush to express his condolences – and to offer him...

Afghanistan. Why Afghan nation-building was always destined to fail (Gareth Price, Chatham House)

The creation of a façade of a state in Afghanistan which melted away the moment international support was withdrawn has been interpreted as showing...

9/11. Out of Africa: Exploring the roots of the 9/11 attacks (Alex Vines OBE, Chatham House)

Osama Bin-Laden’s masterminding of the US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998 saw more than 200 people killed –...

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