Despite an increasingly challenging economic and geopolitical environment, the global economy performed better than expected over the past year. But although analysts’ projections for 2023 were too pessimistic, it appears that consensus forecasts for the coming year may have have swung too far in the opposite direction.
worries that domestic political divisions and market volatility could exacerbate financial vulnerabilities.
If COP28 is to be judged a success, the UAE, as the summit’s host, and other hydrocarbon producers should promise to dedicate some of the windfall oil and gas profits they earned last year to accelerating the green transition in the Global South. Doing so could encourage historic and current emitters to pay their fair share.
urges oil-exporting countries to kickstart a program of green investment in the Global South at COP28.
阿姆斯特丹 — 温水煮青蛙的道理已无需再被证明。如果青蛙直接落入沸水中,它会马上跳出来;但如果这是一锅正在加热的温水,等青蛙意识到水温过高已为时已晚,它只能被活活煮死。独立新闻媒体现在可能正是这样一只青蛙。
在过去的15年中,记者身边的“水温”一直在上升,且最近急剧升高。例如,在2019年,被非法拘留的记者人数增加了12%,总数达到389人。其中几乎有一半都是在中国、埃及和沙特阿拉伯这三个国家被拘留的。
对于记者来说,接触群众抗议活动需要冒很大的风险。在阿尔及利亚、香港、泰国和委内瑞拉的示威活动中,记者经常受到恐吓、骚扰和袭击。在美国,为抗议警察暴行和种族主义歧视,黑人人权运动(Black Lives Matter)发起了一系列游行;而报导这些游行的记者受到了执法人员的无差别攻击。迄今,美国新闻自由追踪系统(US Press Freedom Tracker)已在本年度记录了900多次违反新闻自由的行为,其中包括177多次人身攻击。
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