The World Energy Council has presented the results of a review entitled ‘Shaping the future while managing a crisis: analysis from the World Energy Council’. The study reflects the key problems facing businesses in the energy sector along with the most effective strategies for solving them. Energy development scenarios and mechanisms to adapt to unstable economic conditions — all of these issues will form part of the business programme at the World Energy Congress in St. Petersburg in 2022. The event is organized by the World Energy Council, the Russian National Committee of the World Energy Council and the Roscongress Foundation.

In this report, SimilarWeb analyzes web traffic to assess the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global consumers’ and businesses’ behaviours.

The article by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) discusses possible political, economic, and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the lessons to be learnt by the world, and the EU in particular, from this crisis.