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How to Make Global Climate Action Go Viral
Forbes
Article proposing to scale climate action from the bottom up by establishing the setting and reporting of progress on emission targets as a bedrock principle of good governance in the 21st century for subnational governments (cities and provinces), corporations and other large organizations such as hospitals and universities.
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The Paris Accord Won’t Stop Global Warming on its Own
Foreign Policy
This magazine piece proposes a new type of plurilateral trade agreement, foreshadowing but going well beyond the 'Climate Club' initiative of Germany's 2019 G7 presidency, to coordinate multiple economic policies and standards of major economies in order to scale the penetration of low-carbon products and services in the world economy and avert a trade war over disparate carbon border adjustment schemes.
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Waking Up: America’s Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity for Structural Economic Reform and Political Renewal
Huffington Post
Long form article published during the 2016 US presidential race warning about the complacency of the Clinton campaign and proposing a much stronger and more coherent economic policy program. Based on the contents of a memo sent earlier to the campaign.
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A 21st Century Square Deal
Washington Monthly
Magazine piece published during the 2016 presidential campaign advocating a much greater level of ambition in the Democratic candidate's economic policy program and arguing that the deeper reforms presented would help the Democratic Party assemble a true governing rather than mere electoral majority.
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Running the World, After the Crash: Has the Era of Global Cooperation Ended Before It Began?
Foreign Policy
Governance at all levels -- public and private as well as global, national, and local -- is struggling to adapt.