The phrase "debate namely" is not correct and does not work well in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to introduce a specific example or clarification related to a debate, but the combination is awkward.
Example: "In the debate, namely the one about climate change, several key points were raised."
Alternatives: "debate specifically" or "debate, that is".
Little action has been taken on the issue at the heart of the debate: namely marketing to children.
Mandelson rejected the notion that there has been a hole at the centre of the election debate – namely how the parties will make sizeable reductions.
Pérez Molina's decision to take the debate to Davos signals a new front is opening up in the debate – namely to engage leaders of the business community.
Their belligerence in pushing for deficit reduction on their own terms underlines a central misconception of the fiscal debate: namely, that it is a debate over the deficit.There are many pundits out there who treat the deficit as if it were a simple math problem that could be solved if only the Republicans and Democrats were a bit more cordial.
In response, land-management strategies for biodiversity conservation on farmland are in debate, namely ecological intensification and land sparing vs. land sharing.
Finally, the concluding stage of the philosophical debate, namely, the emergence of the steady-state theory of the Universe, is presented in the context of its development from Popper's philosophy of science.
Examines national and global energy debates, namely energy security, climate change, and energy access.
Your chart takes for granted what needs to be questioned and debated: namely, can we "solve" the carbon crisis at the cost of 24,000 years of pollution (the half-life of plutonium 239)?
Ironically, the very engineers of those debates – namely, the leaders and supporters of the Ennahda (Renaissance) and Nidaa Tounes (The Call of Tunisia) parties – formed a coalition government after the 2014 parliamentary and presidential elections.
What's more perilous is the extent to which these sudden shifts reflect something unique to constitutional debates — namely that arguments for constitutional limits tend not to sway people who don't already have a political incentive to support them.
Using cases from areas where the global land rush and urbanization are simultaneously intensifying in the global South, we identify four areas that should be prioritized in current debates, namely the impacts of land investments on intra-city dynamics, peri-urban dynamics, and the emergence of new cities and new infrastructure corridors.
