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Blog Post
November 15, 2023
On 1st October, the EU soft launched its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which aims to help avoid “carbon leakage”, where companies move their production to country with less stringent climate policies. Reporting requirements will start from 2024 and full charges will come into effect in ...
Blog Post
November 13, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused losses of lives and livelihoods on a scale that many of us had never seen in our lifetimes, shedding light on the ways that pandemics are a “neglected dimension” of global security. And yet, as we are already observing, proposals for increased, sustained support for surv...
WORKING PAPERS
November 13, 2023
Epidemics and pandemics pose a sporadic and sometimes severe threat to human health. How should policymakers prioritize preventing and preparing for such events, relative to other needs? Our simulations suggest that an event having the mortality level of COVID-19 should not be considered a “once in ...
Blog Post
November 02, 2023
Geopolitical risks are rapidly converging, making the world more crisis-prone and precarious. Faced with a near economic collapse in some low and lower middle-income countries, the escalating devastation of climate-related disasters aggravating existing vulnerabilities, and a sharp rise in conflicts...
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2023
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October 18, 2023
On October 1st, the 3-year transition period of the EU CBAM Regulation will begin. Starting in 2026, importers of certain carbon-intensive goods will be required to pay the EU carbon price for emissions embedded in these goods. Applied for iron and steel, cement, fertilizers, aluminium, electricity,...
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2023
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October 13, 2023
The Center for Global Development and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung will bring together policymakers and researchers from the G7, Europe, and Africa to discuss the potential of the Global Gateway (GG) initiative and the Partnership for Global Investment and Infrastructure (PGII) in fulfilling Africa's ne...
Blog Post
September 27, 2023
The UK is, hopefully, coming out of its nadir in international development. This is marked by planned rises in development spend, an ambitious new international development white paper, a supportive Minister, and a new parliament in 2024. But before considering any proposal, future governments with ...
Blog Post
September 21, 2023
The politics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has changed substantially since we launched the first CGD working group on AMR in 2007. There is now much more awareness about the need to act, even if global solutions have not yet been implemented. Countries including the UK, Canada, and Japan have an...