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Bo Lidegaard is Co-Founder, Partner, and Head of Research at Kaya Advisory.

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  1. Europe’s Energy Choice
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    Europe’s Energy Choice

    Jul 26, 2022 Bo Lidegaard argues that the right response to the immediate crisis can and must advance longer-term climate goals.

  2. Sustainability in the Trump Era
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    Sustainability in the Trump Era

    Dec 21, 2016 Bo Lidegaard calls for global action to minimize the environmental risks posed by the incoming US administration.

  3. Climate Change in the Trumpocene Age
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    Climate Change in the Trumpocene Age

    Dec 2, 2016 Bo Lidegaard examines arguments by Jeffrey Sachs, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Joseph Stiglitz, and other Project Syndicate commentators and concludes that the US president-elect’s ability to derail global progress toward a green economy is more limited than many believe.

  4. Beyond the Paris Climate Agreement
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    Beyond the Paris Climate Agreement

    Oct 20, 2016 Bo Lidegaard doubts that emissions targets can be met without a fundamental shift in how business does business.

  5. Hillary Clinton and the Scandinavian-American Dream
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    Hillary Clinton and the Scandinavian-American Dream

    Jul 25, 2016 Bo Lidegaard thinks the US can emulate the Nordic countries' success in ensuring high employment at decent pay.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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