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September 30, 2024
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is responsible for a large and growing burden of mortality, morbidity, and economic impacts. This is due to three underlying problems: lack of access to essential antimicrobials, insufficient stewardship of these drugs to prevent overuse and misuse, and a dearth of inn...
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September 24, 2024
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a critical tool, both for gaining the support of domestic voters and stakeholders for carbon pricing; and in incentivizing other major economies—including the US, China, and India—to accelerate their plans to tackle carbon in industry. Already, t...
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September 18, 2024
EU member states have ambitious green transition targets and healthcare strategies in place, requiring the relevant sectors to expand. Yet these sectors are already suffering from large workforce shortages. Expanding skilled migration from third countries to the EU to meet these shortages risks stri...
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September 17, 2024
Half of children in poor countries have lead poisoning which undermines their lifelong health and education. Prevention of lead exposure can be highly cost-effective and yet is grossly underfunded. We propose that the European Commission should pledge to end lead poisoning within the European Union,...
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September 12, 2024
COVID-19 laid bare the shortcomings in health product markets that contributed to inequitable access to medical countermeasures like vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries. A key challenge is that manufacturing for health products is concentrated in a handful of co...
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September 09, 2024
The EU, when combined with its Member States, is the world’s largest provider of climate finance, but its efforts are not having the geopolitical or climate impacts they should. we propose that the EU create a climate finance impact taskforce to drive the improvement of climate finance programming a...
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September 05, 2024
Financing needs in low- and middle-income countries are at all time high as a result of COVID-19 shocks, soaring debts and elevated interest rates. At the same time, there is increasing pressure on ODA budgets due to weak economic growth in Europe and conflicting priorities. The EU’s concessional fi...
