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Traditional financial ratios reward firms and sovereigns for liquidating natural capital. Until ecological assets are incorporated into return-on-capital metrics, the nature-related risks already moving global markets will remain invisible. ...
As drone warfare reshapes modern conflict, Central Asian states are racing to build indigenous UAV and counter-UAV capabilities before asymmetric threats reach their borders ...
India's aviation sector is expanding at remarkable speed, but persistent structural vulnerabilities including fuel cost shocks, market concentration, and fragile airline balance sheets risk undermining the very growth it promises to deliver ...
Pollution is not just a health crisis; it is a measurement crisis. Until India internalises environmental externalities into its productivity and wealth accounts, headline growth numbers will continue to flatter what is, in reality, a steadily depleting productive base. ...
As BRICS cities confront shared pressures of climate risk, congestion, and uneven service delivery, outcome-oriented auditing could transform urban governance from a compliance exercise into a citizen-centred accountability framework ...
Without equal access to ocean data, science and knowledge, developing countries remain excluded from shaping the governance of their own marine resources ...
The Arctic has shifted from a remote curiosity to an indispensable hub for energy, trade, and global security ...
Marine carbon dioxide removal risks reproducing global inequalities unless ocean governance places equity, participation and accountability at its core ...
Samir Saran is the President of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India’s premier think tank, headquartered in New Delhi with affiliates in North America and the Middle East. His research focuses on issues of global governance, climate and energy policy, ...
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Doctor of History is Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the National Research UniversityHigher School of Economics (NRUHSE) and Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Russia.
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