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As the world reels from a year of record heat and looks all but certain to suffer another, delegates from nearly 200 countries have descended on Baku, Azerbaijan, for this year’s United Nations climate summit—known as COP29—which runs from Nov. 11 to Nov. 22. This summit’s primary focus is a contentious one: money. Developing nations […]
This year, David Miliband wrote that World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) summits “have little of the drama of peace negotiations” but that “for the poorest people in the world, the decisions made at these meetings are matters of life and death.” Miliband’s words hold true as the institutions prepare for their annual meetings […]