What Jan. 6 staffers are revealing, debt-for-adaptation swaps, and the U.K.’s landmark effort to curb illicit investments.
| The United Kingdom’s landmark effort to stop dirty money flowing into its real estate sector Leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.K.’s real estate sector had built up an unsavory reputation as a place where oligarchs, autocrats, and heads of government could store their illicit cash. To curb this practice, the U.K. reintroduced legislation making it harder to own property anonymously. Has it had an impact? Matthew Collin, David Szakonyi, and Florian Hollenbach share their findings. Read more |
| Debt-for-adaptation swaps: Helping climate vulnerable nations Emerging market and developing economies are facing the brunt of climate change’s impacts, while also being the least responsible for warming the planet. It’s not too late for wealthy nations to step up and provide support, argue Chetan Hebbale and Johannes Urpelainen. Their new report explores a tool that could be a gamechanger for climate finance. Read more |
| How Jan. 6 committee staffers have filled in the blanks “The interviews and writing by former staffers [of the January 6 committee] are particularly notable because the Jan. 6 report was such an incomplete and fragmentary document. Now, a look at what these staffers have said publicly—and what they haven’t—reveals key points about what the report did and didn’t contain. And it suggests what issues, and controversies, will remain important for the country to address going forward,” writes Quinta Jurecic. Read on Lawfare |
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