Insights & Reflections — essays by Bilal Anwar

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What Flood-Affected Communities Taught Me About Resilience

What Tonga after Cyclone Gita and Sindh after the 2022 floods taught me about resilience — and about the accountability it demands of the rest of us. Field Note · 5 min read Read field note Featured Insight

Lessons from COP Negotiations

Twenty years of the COP process seen from three seats — the UNFCCC Secretariat, a national delegation, and the observer benches. Field Note · 7 min read Read field note Featured Insight

What Global Forums Often Miss

The questions international forums keep leaving unasked — about development models, prevention, and the political economy of climate finance. Field Note · 8 min read Read field note Featured Insight

Questions That Will Shape the Next Decade

Climate, artificial intelligence, attention, inequality, migration and work — the questions that will decide the direction of the next decade, and the harder one beneath them all. Field Note · 12 min read Read field note