Education and Climate Change, a Framework for US-China Relations, and More

November 8, 2021

Before the previous U.N. climate conference in 2019, few countries were paying attention to the education and empowerment of children and youth—especially girls and young women—as a solution to the climate crisis. Have things changed? In a study of national climate action plans, Christina Kwauk shares a progress report.

In their new report, Brookings President John R. Allen, Ryan Hass, and Bruce Jones present a framework for managing U.S.-China relations that can help minimize the risk of conflict, push both Beijing and Washington to recognize the merits of bounding and managing competition, and enable both sides to pursue calibrated coordination on shared challenges.

Interest rates on business loans, bank branch density, local banking concentration in the residential mortgage market, and the growth of local businesses are markedly different in majority Black neighborhoods than others. Kristen Broady, Mac McComas, and Amine Ouazad provide context and evidence for how this came to be.

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