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Sep 2020
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71. We Can Only Face the Future if We Do...

Persephonica and Global Optimism
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As the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Achim Steiner has a relentless collaborative spirit. The conversation covers the relationship between the environment and economic development as big news comes this week from China. 

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