Decarbonization is in global focus. As societies race to meet the goals set by the Paris Agreement, companies are under pressure to reduce emissions from governments, NGOs, consumers, regulators, shareholders and employees. A failure to decarbonize could result in severe regulatory, financial, and reputational consequences, particularly in developed economies. Companies
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The Canadian Progressive: The inconvenient truth about foreign aid
Like political campaign contributions, today’s self-interested foreign aid often supports badly-designed development projects, imposes foreign investor-friendly policies on recipient countries, facilitates access to intended beneficiaries’ resources, helps aid-giving countries to look good on the world stage, all the while making unquestioning taxpayers in aid giving countries feel good about their
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