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Agata Sagan

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Agata Sagan is an independent researcher living in Warsaw, working on ethics and the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union.

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  1. What Is Your Moral Plan for 2021?
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    What Is Your Moral Plan for 2021?

    Dec 30, 2020 Peter Singer & Agata Sagan encourage New Year's resolutions that focus on becoming a better person, not just a better eater or saver.

  2. Beyond the Traditional Family
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    Beyond the Traditional Family

    Mar 5, 2019 Peter Singer & Agata Sagan cast a critical eye on a document signed in February by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar.

  3. Why Loving Our Animals Is Not Enough
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    Why Loving Our Animals Is Not Enough

    Jun 7, 2018 Agata Sagan & Peter Singer worry that most people don't know as much they should about their household companions.

  4. Do You Want to Be a Cyborg?
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    Do You Want to Be a Cyborg?

    May 16, 2017 Agata Sagan & Peter Singer defend people's right to implant cognition-enhancing devices in their brains.

  5. How Much Should Sex Matter?
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    How Much Should Sex Matter?

    Apr 13, 2012 Peter Singer & Agata Sagan

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    Can Technology End Corruption?

    Azalina Othman Said thinks that powerful new digital tools can help, but only if governments commit to upholding the rule of law.
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    Carbon Farming Won't Save the Planet

    Sophie Scherger warns that soil-storage offsets may serve as a smokescreen for polluting industries.
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    Putin’s March of Folly

    Carl Bildt argues that Russia’s president has only his own poor decisions to blame for his country’s loss of status.
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    A Better Approach to Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann

    By harnessing the capabilities of developing countries, we can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities. This approach would not only advance crucial climate goals but also ensure that a larger share of the world’s population can enjoy the fruits of the clean-energy transition.

     shows how developing countries can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities.
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    Trump’s Bad COP

    Jayati Ghosh says the Paris climate agreement’s future depends on how other countries respond to the new US administration.
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    Are Tariffs Worth It?

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg thinks the risks and costs for the US will far outweigh any potential political or geopolitical benefits.
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    Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?

    Liane Schalatek warns that rich countries are once again shirking their responsibility to provide adequate climate finance.
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    How Global Public Investment Should Work

    Mariana Mazzucato & Jonathan Glennie

    Addressing problems like climate change and biodiversity loss calls for new thinking about how to mobilize the huge volume of financing that will be needed. International cooperation must be re-framed as a collective endeavor in which all countries benefit, contribute, and make investment decisions together.

     propose a new model to unlock financing for action on climate change, biodiversity loss, and other issues.
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    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

    Ana Palacio hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.

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