Outstanding quotes from EEF 2022: Forum participants on energy and climate

The research prepared by Eversheds Sutherland and KPMG IMPACT is based on a survey of business leaders on climate change issues and seeks to identify barriers and opportunities for the global corporate response to climate change.

Experts of the socially oriented non-financial development institution Roscongress Foundation have published the outcomes of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2019. The publication lists key issues on the global and Russian medium-term agendas which were formulated following the Forum.

The current perspectives for the formation of international energy markets are mainly due to the policy of decarbonization of world energy and the growth of energy consumption. Each country forms its energy policy based on its own fuel and energy potential and the situation on international energy markets. The global oil market is currently largely dependent on global processes with a high degree of ‘uncertainty" associated with the use of protectionist and political methods of struggle in the global world economy. «Trade wars», and sanctions increase the uncertainty of the market for the «global» energy resource — oil. The global market for «alternative» energy and technology in this area is much more defined and predictable. The introduction of «platform» economy methods in the energy sector, in combination with the macroregional form of organization of energy markets, will reduce uncertainty factors by avoiding protectionist methods, including sanctions methods, leaving them behind the «perimeter» of macroregional borders.

A new edition of the World Health Statistics series published by the World Health Organization provides a compilation of the latest health statistics and an analysis of the collected data, linking health-related indicators to the Sustainable Development Goals 2015–2030.