Vijay Vaitheeswaran

What do rich countries owe poorer countries for the climate destruction they have caused?

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, correspondent for the Economist, discusses why the benefits of globalization haven’t been shared fairly among all people, and comes up with some ideas for how they can be. His book Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems investigates how the extraordinary benefits of the innovation revolution be shared more equitably among all of society.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran has spent a decade covering environmental and energy issues for the Economist. In ZOOM, he and co-author Iain Carson get inside the global race to build the car of the future, tracking auto industry pioneers as they race to create machines that can run on clean energy sources. ...

Congress is working on an energy package that will include the first raise of fuel economy standards since 1983…but it also could give subsidies to the coal industry to explore the use of liquid coal as an alternative fuel. We’ll look into what this energy package will do, who it ...