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Tripod missions: five principles for solving society’s most pressing challenges

What can the pandemic response teach governments about designing missions to tackle climate change and other major societal challenges?

David Bach and Henning Meyer · Global Policy 13(2), 289–293 · 2022

Abstract

The COVID crisis forced policymakers to design comprehensive rescue programmes under great time pressure, which required innovative policy thinking and new forms of collaboration. The authors draw lessons from the pandemic for tackling other pressing problems, above all climate change, and present ‘Tripod Missions’ as a framework of five principles for doing so.

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