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This week Devex Climate Correspondent William Worley sat down with Meike van Ginneken, the Netherlands’ special envoy for water, who argued that we should be https://www.devex.com/news/dutch-water-envoy-eyes-fossil-fuel-subsidies-to-fund-climate-adaptation-106080to help overcome issues related to water shortages in the face of climate change rather than subsidizing fossil fuels. In addition to looking back at our Devex Pro event with https://www.devex.com/news/usaid-should-use-the-localization-tools-it-has-says-former-official-106101 and digging into the agency’s localization targets, we also discussed an opinion piece written by former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department Nancy Lee, who outlines why https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-country-owned-strategies-are-essential-for-global-progress-105925 will be key to achieving development goals. To find out more about these stories, make sure to check out the latest episode of the podcast, where I sit down with Larry Cooley, president em