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US-Australia green deal shows friends need benefits

Written by James Bowen

Australia’s enthusiastic embrace of its new US partnership should inform Washington’s green industrial outreach elsewhere in the world.

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2023: Addressing climate change

Given the poor performance of industrialised countries in delivering promised climate finance, what are the prospects for the loss and damage fund, details of which are to be negotiated at COP28 this year?

Competition and cooperation: India and China in the global climate regime

Written by Miriam Prys-Hansen and Simon Kaack

The need to cooperate in matters of climate change requires partnerships among states, such as India and China, that in other contexts are competitors — if not rivals. This simultaneity of cooperation and competition is one of the key features of the emerging multipolar order and should take centre stage in both policy and academic research.

Energy interdependence is here to stay

Written by James Bowen

The timing is currently ideal for democracies to accelerate clean energy cooperation and ensure more benign future relations among themselves and the wider world.

South Korea eyes Europe for its future

Written by Eunwoo Lee

South Korea, whose external engagement has so far revolved around the intractable security stances of the US and China, can surely hedge its security interests by embracing Europe.

The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Indian economy

Written by Anuttama Banerji

India has the opportunity to reassess its priorities and shift from being a fuel-dependent economy to a greener one, reducing its dependence on autocratic states.