How local policy can support climate-smart trade
Meeting needs at the human scale creates opportunities for serving people across regions and internationally. Trade is the domain of national governments. In the European Union, it is largely treated…
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Leading locally just got much more important
The risks and costs imposed by climate-disrupting pollution are real, pervasive, and getting worse. This is an observable reality, not a forecast. Local communities, regional economies, and international supply chains,…
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Endangerment is not a matter of opinion
The Endangerment Finding is a formal recognition by the US Environmental Protection Agency that climate disruption poses a threat to human health and safety. It serves as the foundation for U.S.…
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US farm economy heading toward collapse, says bipartisan group
In a stunning bipartisan letter, released this week, former senior leaders in US agriculture, who served in government and as leading advocates for farmers and trade associations, have warned American agriculture might be…
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Information integrity is an economic & security imperative
There is a reason all moral and religious traditions treat lying as an offense, even a sin which warrants divine punishment. Providing people with false information has real impacts on…
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Government has an implicit duty not to aid polluters
The American standard of law and public authority holds that rights are universal, unalienable, and irreducible, and that power can only be exercised within specific parameters set out in written…
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Co-investment innovation for a healthy food future
Food systems, as they operate today, are not operationally structured to meet the food security and planetary health needs of a growing global population. Climate disruption is eroding productive capacity…
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The United States has not ‘left’ the UNFCCC
Donald Trump wants to stop participating in the UNFCCC process and pretend he is not sworn to uphold its provisions. That is all. On January 7, 2026, Donald Trump issued…
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Outlook for 2026: Peace & prosperity need roots
2025 was a year of deep and far-reaching disruption, tragic preventable mass death, and staggering breakdown in public trust. The risks and costs stemming from the deviations of 2025 will be with…
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