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Author: Rachel Dobbs

Rachel Dobbs

Rachel is a freelance journalist covering the environment, social justice and culture. She regularly writes for The Economist and has also appeared in The Guardian, the BBC, Foreign Policy Magazine, and other publications. She is currently working on a book about the places and communities which will be lost to climate change. She tweets, badly, at @ItsRachelDobbs, and her website is here. She really loves sailing and Scotland.

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Climate
A Bretton Woods For Climate? Rachel Kyte Makes The Case

A Bretton Woods For Climate? Rachel Kyte Makes The Case

Our financial system is unfit for both our current situation and future, argues Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. “The challenge that we have for the next

Inclusive Economy
Creating Jobs For Africa’s Youth

Creating Jobs For Africa’s Youth

Africa has the world’s youngest population. Even prior to COVID-19, many of these young people struggled to find jobs. Those who did often found themselves stuck in a cycle of precarious, low paid employment. At

Citizenship & Rights
Monitoring America’s Elections. A View from Abroad

Monitoring America’s Elections. A View from Abroad

If you have lingering doubts about the integrity of the recent US presidential election, Priit Vinkel can reassure you. Vinkel, who considers himself first and foremost a political scientist, joined the Estonian government’s election division

Governance
Should elections be conducted online? Estonia’s are

Should elections be conducted online? Estonia’s are

On November 3—and for much of the week afterwards, as what usually takes one day was stretched out over five—people around the world found themselves glued to the US election. Viewers were regaled with stories

Climate
Chief Resilience Officers To The Rescue

Chief Resilience Officers To The Rescue

“It gives me an international platform where I can pick up some of the challenges cities are facing and look for solutions," says Mahesh Harhare, explaining why he wanted the job of Chief Resilience Officer

Housing
Making Density Less Deadly. COVID Can Catalyze Healthier Housing Policies

Making Density Less Deadly. COVID Can Catalyze Healthier Housing Policies

“There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now,” tweeted Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, on March 22nd. In the three weeks since New

Food
Singapore Sprouting. A Pioneering Ag Tech Policy

Singapore Sprouting. A Pioneering Ag Tech Policy

Singapore has an impressive history of succeeding against the odds, emerging as a global economic and financial powerhouse out of the most unpromising conditions when it secured its independence after the Second World War. Becoming

Citizenship & Rights
Domestic Abuse During COVID. New Zealand’s Innovative Response

Domestic Abuse During COVID. New Zealand’s Innovative Response

For decades, New Zealand has been a world-leader in a category nobody wants to win: it has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the developed world. In 2018, the country’s police investigated

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