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.
纽约—至少可以说,俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争并没有按计划进行。现在,私营军事公司瓦格纳集团(Wagner Group)首脑叶夫根尼·普里戈任(Yevgeny Prigozhin)正在升级对俄罗斯军方的公开抨击。在克里姆林宫积极镇压 异议的时候,他如何逃脱惩罚?
自2022年2月发起 “特别军事行动” 以来,普京总统一直 声称 追求不同的目标。一开始是寻求整个乌克兰的“去纳粹化”和“非军事化”(通过夺取对它的控制权),后来的 目标是 “解放”顿巴斯东部地区。他还谈到捍卫俄罗斯的 “历史边界”,坚持是西方迫使他攻击乌克兰。
这些修辞上的转变反映了战场动态——特别是俄罗斯军队的反复受挫、错误和误判。简而言之,普京正试图挽回面子。但普里戈津——京越来越依赖他取得战场胜利——并没有让这变得容易。
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