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Simon Zadek

Simon Zadek

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Simon Zadek is Co-CEO of NatureFinance.

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  1. Making Biodiversity Credits Work
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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Oct 25, 2024 Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.

  2. Only a Sustainable Bioeconomy Can Save Us
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    Only a Sustainable Bioeconomy Can Save Us

    Sep 16, 2024 Simon Zadek argues that investing in biodiversity while the global economy continues to over-exploit resources is futile.

  3. Planning for a Future Beyond 1.5°C
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    Planning for a Future Beyond 1.5°C

    Nov 20, 2023 Simon Zadek argues that the target for limiting global warming has become an impediment to truly innovative climate action.

  4. A New Playbook for Preserving Nature
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    A New Playbook for Preserving Nature

    Jul 25, 2023 Sandrine Dixson-Declève & Simon Zadek propose a broad set of measures to steer the global economy toward a nature-positive pathway.

  5. The Geopolitics of Nature
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Jun 6, 2023 Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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    The US Economy’s Trust Deficit

    Michael Spence considers the causes and consequences of Americans’ declining faith in media and government.
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    Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork argue that the country should give its windfall gains from gas exports to those on the front lines.
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    Navigating the Risks of Digital Public Infrastructure

    Carl Gahnberg calls for guardrails and policy guidelines to prevent governments from abusing the policy paradigm.
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    Services Are the New Road to Development

    Indermit Gill & Aaditya Mattoo explain why developing countries need a new paradigm to replace the old manufacturing-led model.
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    Russia Just Lost Its Great-Power Status

    Galip Dalay explains why the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has diminished the Kremlin’s global influence.
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    Twelve Questions for Philanthropists

    Dambisa Moyo offers practical advice to those who want to contribute effectively to charitable causes.
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2024

    PS editors

    At the end of a year of domestic and international upheaval, Project Syndicate commentators share their favorite books from the past 12 months. Covering a wide array of genres and disciplines, this year’s picks provide fresh perspectives on the defining challenges of our time and how to confront them.

    ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that resonated with them the most over the past year.
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    The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

    Ilana Seid calls for creative mechanisms for financing investment in our planet’s largest carbon sink.
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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

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