The UK’s National Wealth Fund: A Guiding Beacon or a Lost Mirage? Strengthening Governance to Empower the UK’s Future

The UK’s National Wealth Fund: A Guiding Beacon or a Lost Mirage? Strengthening Governance to Empower the UK’s Future

By Udaibir Das

The UK is poised to make a significant impact with the National Wealth Fund (NWF), a fund designed to spearhead its green transition and support sustainable growth. Will the UK’s NWF be a guiding economic beacon or just a political mirage?

The Power of the Private Sector: Boosting Climate Resilience

The Power of the Private Sector: Boosting Climate Resilience

By Udaibir Das

The IMF’s RST is a significant step forward in mobilising climate finance, focused on leveraging private sector involvement. By learning from the RST’s successes and challenges, other international efforts can enhance their strategies to attract private capital, creating a more sustainable and resilient global economy.

India's Role in Diversifying Global Clean Energy Supply Chains

India's Role in Diversifying Global Clean Energy Supply Chains

Ongoing armed conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and a fractured trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, mean the energy transition cannot take economic integration and its accompanying benefits for granted.

Special Report

By Raj Sawhney, Shayak Sengupta, and Gregory Wischer

Editor: Shayak Sengupta

Air pollution mortality from India's coal power plants: unit-level estimates for targeted policy

Air pollution mortality from India's coal power plants: unit-level estimates for targeted policy

By Kirat Singh, Tapas Peshin, Shayak Sengupta, Sumil K Thakrar, Christopher W Tessum, Jason D Hill, Inês M L Azevedo and Stephen P Luby

Absolute annual mortality ranges from less than 1 to over 650 deaths/year across units, and the mortality intensity of generation varies from under 0.002 to 0.43 deaths/GWh.

Cyber Stakeholders: ORF America's Contributions to Multilateralism at the UN Open-Ended Working Group

Cyber Stakeholders: ORF America's Contributions to Multilateralism at the UN Open-Ended Working Group

Contribution from the Cyberspace Cooperation Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation America in the context of the seventh substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 (March 2024).