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Reimagining Climate Leadership: A New Architecture for Global Development Cooperation
Sustainable Development | Climate Change Nov 12, 2025

Reimagining Climate Leadership: A New Architecture for Global Development Cooperation

To make the Implementation COP effective, climate finance must shift from fragmented pledges to predictable, equitable flows reaching cities and communities ...

From Hawala to Digital Wallets: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Tech-Savvy Terror
Terrorism Nov 12, 2025

From Hawala to Digital Wallets: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Tech-Savvy Terror

JeM’s women-centric online jihad course reveals how Pakistan’s digital and ideological ecosystems continue to enable extremism under the cloak of religious education. ...

From Gaza to Afghanistan: Is it All Down to the ‘Moderates’?
International Affairs Nov 12, 2025

From Gaza to Afghanistan: Is it All Down to the ‘Moderates’?

Experiences from Afghanistan to Gaza show that expecting ‘moderates’ to anchor post-conflict politics overlooks the deeper power struggles and ideological rifts that shape these theatres ...

Rare Earths Armistice: India’s Shift from Mining to Processing
Developing and Emerging Economies | Energy Access Nov 12, 2025

Rare Earths Armistice: India’s Shift from Mining to Processing

The US–China rare-earth truce offers a brief opening. India, long exporting raw minerals, now has a chance to build processing power and strategic leverage. ...

Rare Diseases: Justice Delayed, Treatment Denied
Healthcare Nov 12, 2025

Rare Diseases: Justice Delayed, Treatment Denied

As appeals progress slowly, rare-disease patients face therapy breaks and irreversible harm, showing how legal timelines can fail clinical needs. ...

The Gender Agenda at COP30
Gender | Climate Change Nov 11, 2025

The Gender Agenda at COP30

COP30 offers a pivotal moment to strengthen gender-responsive climate governance, bridging structural, financial, and policy gaps to ensure that global commitments translate into equitable and effective outcomes. ...

From Paris to Belém: Building a Climate-Resilient Food Future
Healthcare | Climate Change | Agriculture Nov 11, 2025

From Paris to Belém: Building a Climate-Resilient Food Future

Food systems have moved from the sidelines to the centre of climate action, as COP30 aims to embed agriculture within the Paris framework for resilience and mitigation. ...

Changing Mindsets, Bringing Change on Transparency
Sustainable Development | Climate Change Nov 11, 2025

Changing Mindsets, Bringing Change on Transparency

COP30 must strengthen transparency and cooperation to help the Global South build capacity and turn climate ambition into action ...

Melting Glaciers, Moving People: Nepal’s Climate-induced Migration
Neighbourhood | Climate Change Nov 11, 2025

Melting Glaciers, Moving People: Nepal’s Climate-induced Migration

As melting glaciers and erratic weather displace vulnerable Himalayan communities, Nepal’s climate crisis is fast becoming South Asia’s next major migration challenge, demanding urgent regional cooperation and policy action ...

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Soumya Bhowmick

Soumya Bhowmick

Dr. Soumya Bhowmick is a Fellow and Lead for World Economies and Sustainability at the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy (CNED) at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). He has completed his Ph.D. from BML Munjal University as a SYLFF Research ...

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Soumya Bhowmick

Dr. Soumya Bhowmick is a Fellow and Lead for World Economies and Sustainability at the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy (CNED) at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). He has completed his Ph.D. from BML Munjal University as a SYLFF Research ...

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