Latin America’s Answer to Davos Begins Tomorrow in Panama

A Regional Forum at a Global Inflection Point Panama City takes center stage tomorrow as leaders from across government, finance, and industry convene for the International Economic Forum Latin America […]
America Walks Away From Paris — And the Climate Map Quietly Shifts

Today is the day it becomes official. The United States has formally exited the Paris Agreement, completing a yearlong withdrawal process and severing its participation in the world’s most consequential […]
SDG News Spotlight: Sergio Díaz-Granados Guida and the Power Shift in Global Development

In a world where tariffs are rewriting alliances and trade is once again a tool of statecraft, few development leaders sit closer to the intersection of finance, diplomacy, and geopolitics […]
Historic EU–India Trade Deal Signals New Global Trade Order

A Deal Decades in the Making For nearly two decades, trade negotiators from Europe and India circled one another, meeting, pausing, restarting, and retreating again. On January 27, that long […]
A Small Sell, a Bigger Signal: What Nordic Pension Funds Are Saying About U.S. Stability

A quiet but consequential recalibration is underway in Northern Europe. Some of the region’s largest pension funds are reducing or exiting U.S. Treasury holdings, signaling that geopolitical risk and political […]
Myanmar Election Sparks Global Outcry as Junta-Backed Party Claims Victory

Myanmar’s first national election since the military seized power in 2021 has concluded with a decisive claimed victory for the military-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party, a result that has […]
The Red Line Moment: Trump’s 100 Percent Tariff Tests the Limits of Trade Power

President Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules of global trade for more than a year, using tariffs not as a last resort but as a first response. What makes […]
New Zealand Bets on the Quantum Frontier

Wellington moves to turn deep science into economic muscle WELLINGTON — In a modest line item with outsized ambition, the New Zealand government has committed NZ $1.35 million to chart […]
Jean-Pierre Lacroix: The UN’s Quiet Steward of Peace in a Noisy New Era

As global diplomacy fractures and new power centers assert themselves, the idea of peace is being rebranded in real time. The launch of the Board of Peace by U.S. President […]
24/7 Clean Power Comes to Central Asia

Masdar and UAE partners move to deliver round-the-clock renewable energy for Uzbekistan A major step toward always-on clean electricity is taking shape in Central Asia. Masdar, alongside UAE partners, has […]