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China Daily / Beijing
Green energy will halt global warming
鈥淭he best thing to come out of Paris was the announcement of the Bill Gates-led green energy innovation fund together with private individuals and governments...,鈥� , director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. 鈥淯ntil there is a breakthrough that makes green energy competitive on its own merits, massive carbon cuts are extremely unlikely to happen. Claims that carbon cuts will be free or even generate economic growth don鈥檛 stack up given today鈥檚 technology. Every economic model shows real costs. If not, we wouldn鈥檛 need the Paris Treaty: every nation would stampede to voluntarily cut CO2 and get rich.鈥�

The Korea Times / Seoul, South Korea
After Paris talks, legislatures must effect change
鈥淎dvancing domestic measures on global warming and experiencing the benefits of reducing emissions have been crucial building blocks creating the political 鈥榳indow of opportunity鈥� to enable [the Paris climate talks] agreement...,鈥� , Europe鈥檚 chief negotiator at the Kyoto climate talks, and , an associate at the London School of Economics. 鈥淎nd all of this underlines why legislators must be at the centre of international negotiations and policy processes not just on climate change, but also on the full range of sustainable development issues. Along with governments, they can now help co-create, and follow-through to implement, what could be a foundation of global sustainable development in coming decades for billions across the world.鈥�

Spiegel international / Berlin
The difficult friendship between Germany and Israel
鈥淔riendships between nations are similar to those between two people. The first rule is that they have to be tended to. The second is that the affection must be mutual. The third: A true friendship thrives on the courage to give criticism 鈥� and on the ability to accept it...,鈥� . 鈥淕ermany鈥檚 political elite remains faithful to Israel.... But the first cracks are already showing. During her last visit to Israel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, and live on camera, that the two had agreed to disagree.... Netanyahu is demanding that people divide the world between good and evil. In his eyes, friends can only be real friends if they support his policies 100 percent.... There鈥檚 a danger that critical friends of Israel will eventually fall silent. We don鈥檛 want to be lumped together with the anti-Semites and Israel haters 鈥� particularly when our transgression is our concern for the country鈥檚 future.鈥�

The Daily Star / Dhaka, Bangladesh
Be wary of 鈥榮trong鈥� leaders who talk tough
In the analysis following the San Bernardino, Calif., massacre in which 14 people were killed, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump 鈥渋nterrupted such rational discourse by hijacking the conversation towards hate, the jet fuel that propels the misguided missile that is Trump...,鈥� . 鈥淗istory has shown that fascists like Hitler, Mussolini and Franco came to power democratically. They were xenophobic fear mongers. They dehumanise a minority as the root cause of the majority鈥檚 suffering (German Jews in Hitler鈥檚 case). They are 鈥榮trong鈥� leaders who talk tough. Once in power, they throw the constitution away and become dictators.鈥�

Aljazeera America / New York
Bosnian peace that did not last
鈥淭wenty years ago ..., the 1995 Dayton Accords were signed in Paris, bringing peace to Bosnia.... [T]he agreement stunned the world by ending a vicious civil war that the Europeans could not stop...,鈥� , a journalist living in Berlin. 鈥淏ut for all its merits ... [the settlement] failed to design a multiethnic state for postwar Bosnia.... Instead, the agreement imposed structures that reinforced existing ethnic cleavages and ... [split] the country into ethnic statelets. Two decades later, Bosnia-Herzegovina remains impoverished, dysfunctional and churning with acrimony.鈥�