By Helen Mountford and Mauricio CárdenasWASHINGTON, DC/BOGOTÁ — The science is clear: To avoid the most damaging effects of climate change, the world must reach net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions around mid-century.

By Javier Solana and Enrique V. IglesiasMADRID/MONTEVIDEO — Latin America is experiencing an especially grave set of crises. The region’s economies are stagnating. Its politics are broken. And, above all, the health of its people is in jeopardy.

By Miroslav Beblavý and Sona Muzikárová  BRATISLAVA — COVID-19 has accelerated the digitalisation of the global economy. According to OECD estimates, nearly one-third of all jobs globally are likely to be transformed by technology in the next decade.

By Josep Borrell and Virginijus SinkevičiusBRUSSELS — The Arctic is changing rapidly, owing to the impact of global warming, increasing competition for resources, and geopolitical rivalries.

By Madeleine Albright and Ibrahim GambariWASHINGTON, DC — Not since World War II has the international community confronted as monumental a test as the intertwined crises of COVID-19 and climate change, and the profound social and economic inequalities they have exposed.

By Arvind Subramanian and Justin SandefurPROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND — Since its founding, the World Bank has evolved to perform three main functions: Provide global public goods, generate valuable data and independent analysis, and transfer mostly concessional resources to poo

By María Fernanda Espinosa and Danilo TürkNEW YORK — The world faces a range of serious threats, from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality, that are preventing the international community from working together to solve other complex challenges

By Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Otaviano Canuto and Pepe ZhangWASHINGTON, DC — Global poverty rose last year for the first time since 1998 as the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an additional 97 million people below the international threshold of $1.9 per day.

By Mark Malloch-Brown, Raj Shah, and Darren WalkerNEW YORK — COVID-19 has bifurcated the world like almost nothing else.