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30 October 2018
Seamus Garvey argues in favour of an innovative way to store renewable energy.  Electricity generated by fossil fuels is increasingly unsustainable and a shift towards renewable…
30 October 2018
Guy Ryder on why an aptitude for lifelong learning is needed to future-proof jobs markets.  The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2018 gives some cause for…
29 October 2018
“No somos peces para vivir del mar. No somos aves para vivir del aire. Somos hombres para vivir de la tierra » [We are not fish to love from the sea. We are not birds to live from…
25 October 2018
Stephen Hopgood argues that the survival and flourishing of human rights requires people. When considering the future of human rights and whether they will be viewed as more, or…
24 October 2018
    There has been an increase in competition in the global agricultural sector that causes distress among small scale farmers who are increasingly left behind in this process.…
24 October 2018
How we measure attention incentivises content that erodes our public sphere and polarises communities, including in the Global South. Could better metrics incentivise better…
23 October 2018
Keep your cyber tools close, your history books closer. For some, the signing of the July 2015 Iran nuclear deal might appear as a “watershed moment” for abating the flow of Iran’…
22 October 2018
Murilo Gaspardo frames Brazil's recent elections in the context of an ongoing worldwide challenge to political liberalism. The outcome of the October 7th Brazil’s elections…
19 October 2018
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
17 October 2018
Yunnan Chen and Cinnamon Dornsife explore the prospects for the future of global economic governance. A decade after the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the search for…