Weakening the World Bank and other multilateral development banks that have a large United States presence could present an opportunity for a little-known, relatively new Chinese-led international organisation like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
The Federal Reserve is perhaps the most significant independent economic actor in the US. Yet it has surrendered to Trump – the Fed Board withdrew from a global network that brought together central banks to improve climate risk management.
The ‘rights of nature’ is an allied approach, but nature needs something with more and broader teeth, that can elicit a moral and political consensus on the need for nature conservation.