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.
马萨诸塞州斯托克布里奇—有时,新闻周期不仅仅是噪音。它提供了一个响亮而奇怪的信号,表明地平线之外可能存在什么。本月就发生了这种情况,当时一个更有希望、危险、完全不同的地缘政治出现了。在短短几天内,我们目睹了俄罗斯军队在乌克兰几近崩溃,以及一个政权在伊朗城市街头的屈辱。
俄罗斯总统普京的士兵表明自己只不过是移动的暴徒,他们折磨和虐待他们控制下的平民,他们突然放弃自己的阵地,从字面上逃离前进的乌克兰军队。普京法西斯倾向的国家安全国家可能正在化为灰烬。他的核战争威胁只是表明,专制政权在到期前的几年中处于最危险的时期。
至于伊朗,其政权在臣民中的声名狼藉表露无疑,大规模抗议活动席卷了数十个城市,要求结束伊斯兰共和国。社交媒体传播的愤怒是由一名 22 岁的妇女玛莎·阿米尼( Mahsa Amini )死于所谓的道德警察之手所引发,她因未正确佩戴头巾而被拘留。但燃料是几十年的镇压和腐败,以及凋敝的经济。
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