Ajay Banga is the right person to lead the World Bank and raise its ambitions in tackling the largest global development challenges, including climate change.

As the chapters of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report were released over the course of last year, it was clear that the damage from climate change is affecting us sooner and on a greater scale than we knew. Findings in the IPCC Synthesis Report for its Sixth Assessment, which draws from previous released material, shows how close we are to losing the window in which we can effectively limit warming to 1.5°C, a critical benchmark in our fight against climate change. While the narrow window to limit warming to 1.5°C has not yet closed, it is growing ever narrower. 

Weed stores have become ubiquitous in much of New York City. Unsurprisingly, drug-related incidents in the schools are on the rise.

The pandemic changed our world, transforming our understanding of and attitude towards public health. As the first truly global pandemic of the modern era, the outbreak inspired a level of coordination and cooperation previously unseen between cities, as mayors, governors and municipal leaders looked less to national governments for guidance and support than to each other.

Five global cities were recognized for their achievements in preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries at the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit

Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies, joined COP28 UAE President-Designate Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber to announce a new partnership to bolster meaningful climate action from cities, businesses, financial institutions, and civil society at and ahead of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28).

In more than 20 years of public life, I have steadfastly supported Israel and its people in both word and deed, including by building medical facilities there, co-founding a leadership center, supporting its innovative local programs and funding other good causes. I have never gotten involved in its domestic politics or criticized its government initiatives. But my love for Israel, my respect for its people and my concern about its future are now leading me to speak out against the current government’s attempt to effectively abolish the nation’s independent judiciary.

Its own history shows that multinational development banks have the power to tackle global challenges — and no challenge is bigger than climate change.

The tobacco industry is acting as if it’s above the law in California, and it ought to be a wake-up call about its quiet intentions to reverse the gains that have been made in reducing tobacco use over the past two decades.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has all the traditional hallmarks of a conventional war, with troops and tanks on the ground and airstrikes from above. But even as today’s battles resemble wars of old, Ukraine has been successfully defending itself beyond expectations in part because of the courage and determination of its people who have used new technology in ways that are changing how wars are fought.