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November 2026
- Technology adoption
The economics of technology adoption
A better technology does not sell itself. Whether people and firms adopt it depends on cost, risk, information, networks and the complementary changes it demands.
- Climate finance
Financing the clean transition
The technology is ready and increasingly cheap. What remains scarce is affordable capital in the places that need it most, and the tools to move money there.
- Polycrisis resilience
Polycrisis: a field guide
What the word means, where it came from, how crises become entangled and what builds resilience. A reference you can scan in five minutes.
- Clean cooking
Clean cooking and human development
Around two billion people still cook over open fires or on basic stoves. The smoke shortens lives, consumes women's time and degrades the climate, which makes the kitchen one of development's most overlooked frontiers.
- Energy transition
Clean energy in emerging economies
Solar and wind are now the cheapest new power in most of the world. The next phase of the energy transition will be decided by whether emerging economies can afford to build them.
- Polycrisis resilience
Technology diffusion as polycrisis resilience
In a world of compound shocks, how fast useful technologies spread matters more than where they were invented. Diffusion is one of the most underrated resilience strategies available.
- Cooling access
Why cooling is becoming a development issue
As heatwaves grow longer and hotter, access to cooling is shifting from a comfort to a precondition for health, productivity and food security.
October 2026
- Polycrisis
What is a polycrisis, and why does the word matter?
When shocks stop arriving one at a time, the old playbook of managing each crisis in isolation stops working. A short guide to the idea and its uses.
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