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African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education

Corporate Knights

Across the continent, business schools are embracing local narratives , turning the classroom into a space where African ingenuity and global relevance meet and changing how students see themselves – not just as participants but as creators of a more sustainable and equitable global economy.

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A Blueprint for Closing the SDG Financing Gap: How to Raise $290 Billion in 12 Months to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems

James Militzer

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. Make multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) catalysts of mobilization. They failed. of the annual climate and SDG investment needs in EMDEs.

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Aligning Finance with Climate Action

Chris Hall

More money flows to fossil fuel-related investments than to mitigation and adaptation in over 50 global economies , which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change labels a “persistent misallocation”. And while action to reform private sector finance can happen domestically, it needs a demonstrable global boost.

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The Fed Cannot Fix Today’s Energy Inflation Problem

Gail Tverberg

One of the issues bringing about the 2008-2009 Great Recession was defaults related to Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and Collateralized Debt Swaps (CDSs), involving debt that had been cut into layers and resold. With the high level of debt that the world economy has today, major defaults are a worry.

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No Quick Fix to Europe’s Gas Dependency

Chris Hall

Even Germany’s decision to permanently shelve Nord Stream 2 , the partial ejection of Russian banks from Swift , and oil and gas majors exiting equity partnerships with Russian companies in recent days have been ignored by the former intelligence officer. Economic sanctions have so far failed to shake President Vladimir Putin’s resolve.

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The G7 Summit 2022 Is Coming. Here's Why All Global Citizens Should Be Paying Attention

3BL Media

In the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis , finance ministers from six of the world’s leading economies — France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US — formalized talks they had been having about the state of the global economy and international politics.

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How much do we know about countries preparedness to respond to pandemics? Insights from two country-level indices

Sustainable Development Network

Confronting the Crisis: Priorities for the Global Economy’, 9 April 2020. Joint Statement World Bank Group and IMF Call to Action on Debt of IDA Countries’, 25 March 2020. Origins and Evolutionary Genomics of the 2009 Swine-Origin H1N1 Influenza A Epidemic’. 7250 (June 2009): 1122–25. World Bank. IMF Blog.