Edition #12: January 7, 2025

Every month, She Writes highlights women contributors whose ideas deserve wider attention, and offers a curated selection of incisive commentaries written by women.

Annie Cohen-Solal, a French historian, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan. She is the author of several books, including Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life, Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, and, most recently, Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973.

Guernica Is Always with Us

Cohen-Solal laments the tragic developments of 2024, and wonders if humanity can come to its senses.

Ilana Seid is Palau’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Sherpa Co-Chair of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the Blue Economy and Finance Forum. She also chairs the Pacific Small Islands Developing States (PSIDS) which lobbies on behalf of 14 small countries at the UN. Previously, Seid was the founder and CEO of the online e-commerce company Sunday Morning.

The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

Seid calls for creative mechanisms for financing investment in our planet’s largest carbon sink.

PS Longer Reads

PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2025

Laura Carvalho, Vera Songwe, Isabella M. Weber, and others identify the national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

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