By 2050, 1/4 people will be African. 1/3 of minerals for energy transition lie beneath African soil. Congo Basin rainforest is world’s 2nd lung. African capitals marshal 1/4 of UN votes. A Nigerian heads WTO and an Ethiopian leads WHO. @davidpilling ft.com/content/8ab441…
China’s carbon emissions fell almost 8 per cent in the April-to-June quarter compared with the same period last year, the sharpest decline in the past decade, according to climate research service @CarbonBrief ft.com/content/3eb8ae… https://t.co/gN8AA5N4Uh
"Libya, which sits on top of Africa’s largest proven oil reserves, is divided between Russian and Turkish zones of influence." A fact in 2022 that would have seemed quite weird in 2010! ft.com/content/88f698…
RT @b9n10nt: @cfgoldberg @70sBachchan @vpalsmith33 @DanielDenvir I want to re-express my opinion that @70sBachchan’s threading format at le…
RT @70sBachchan: @vpalsmith33 @cfgoldberg @DanielDenvir thanks all!see threads as creative exercise. Am going for (1) Learning loop:fractal…
US officials have told chipmaker Nvidia that it will need special licences to sell Chinese customers its A100 and forthcoming H100 graphical processing units that are widely used as accelerators in AI calculations. ft.com/content/7005d5… https://t.co/tIzraH7JNO
"Poland has unveiled a long-awaited parliamentary report claiming Germany owes it 6.2tn zlotys (€3.4tn) in reparations for the damage and losses the country suffered during the second world war." What could possibly go wrong, you ask …. ft.com/content/df7016…
Devastating account by @schieritz @bertpsch @PPinzler of the decision-making within German government that led to self-defeating combination of gas levy and VAT cut on gas. What a shambles! Driven by concern for debt brake and Uniper's credit rating. UNREAL! @DanielaGabor twitter.com/schieritz/stat…
RT @schieritz: Die Gasumlage ist zum Symbol für das Versagen der Regierung in der Krise geworden. Was hinter den Kulissen wirklich gelaufen…
RT @jfkirkegaard: Il Sorpasso…. China > USA on what is arguably the most basic average quality of life metric…. life expectancy at birt…
RT @COdendahl: Absolutely remarkable. The German state is incapable of transferring money to its citizens because … matching bank and t…
RT @elham_saeidi: I'm glad to share I will be Market Structure Fellow at @jainfamilyinst. In the program,we decode a portion of financial m…
RT @scienceisstrat1: Few realize how explosive the growth of EVs has been in China in the last 24 months. EVs now account for 26% of all ca…
RT @michaelxpettis: 1/6 Chen Long, from Chinese research outfit Plenum, gave a very interesting presentation yesterday on Chinese real esta…
Uniper, historically Europe’s largest buyer of Russian gas, said volumes it received from Russia had fallen by 80% since June, forcing it to procure alternative supplies at “significantly higher prices” -> cash losses of “well over” €100mn a day. ft.com/content/09c2f2… https://t.co/TmbNlgh5Ey
“The very survival of the state is at stake,” Ought to be a good moment for oil-exporting Iraq. Instead, Shia in-fighting is tearing Baghdad apart ft.com/content/fd6c8a… https://t.co/uBCNChh6R5
I like it … @CameronAbadi we should do a segment about land use and golf courses. twitter.com/PipGradgrind/s…
The total amount of Chinese LNG that has been resold is probably more than 4mn tonnes, equivalent to 7 per cent of Europe’s gas imports in the half year to the end of June. ft.com/content/1e2046… https://t.co/eOE9H2ZPbv
Want to know about the bond market. You gotta love the fact that @FTAlphaville has the great @alexandrascaggs on the beat! ft.com/content/406505… https://t.co/LIDGHffexr
US petrol prices are well off their peaks. But with oil stabilizing around $100 will they keep on falling? ft.com/content/6c6894… https://t.co/5AYhbOU3UD
Country Garden, China’s largest and previously safest property group, has reported a 96% drop in earnings. Net profits fell to Rmb612mn ($88mn) in the first half, the biggest decline since Country Garden listed in 2007. Forget Evergrande, no one is safe! ft.com/content/325138… https://t.co/HWuDD9fLvV
RT @lastoriaeleidee: I volontari dell'OPA girano per i negozi: "Quando trovi un prezzo superiore a quello legale, portalo all'attenzione de…
RT @Ben_Westcott: Breaking: The Solomon Islands have put a "moratorium" on all future visits by the US navy, pending "updates in protocol p…
Upping pressure: Global funds that invested in China Evergrande’s bonds have come up with their own debt restructuring plan for the cash-strapped property developer and demanded that its chair repay liabilities with his own fortune ft.com/content/c01ca8… https://t.co/2THuN6QeVx
RT @michaelxpettis: 9/15 Beijing can do this indirectly, by eliminating the hukou, or subsidizing medical treatment, schooling, housing and…
RT @michaelxpettis: 2/15 The point isn't that China "should" reorient its economy away from the current over-reliance on investment and tow…
RT @heimbergecon: Real wages in Germany declined by 4.4% in the second quarter of 2022, i.e. nominal wage growth was much lower than inflat…
RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Russia is exporting more crude than ever. Oil tankers are flagged all over the place to conceal ownership. We built a…
Southern chinese city of Shenzhen on Monday shut down the world's largest electronics market and suspended public transport nearby as authorities enforced neighborhood-wide lockdowns in response to a small number of Covid cases. twitter.com/julianku/statu…
“They had said they will do X, Y and Z and they have done more,” Kerry on China and climate policy ft.com/content/a1007c…
RT @RebeccaSpang: But is it just "historians" who argue by means of analogy with the past?** Of course not! Economists (!) for instance, d…
Protectionism & energy transition go hand in hand in US: consternation in Seoul that only EV assembled in North America will qualify for generous consumer tax credits outlined in Manchin's IRA, hampering the ambitions of South Korean auto group Hyundai. ft.com/content/314d0c…
@kjellbjorn @RanaForoohar BLS data for 2020 apparently but Rana did not give us a link. Wonder whether @FT can help us with that.
Honda and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution will invest $4.4bn to build a new battery plant in the US, amid increasing pressure from Washington to cut China out of supply chains for electric vehicles. Positioning to be beneficiaries of IRA. ft.com/content/314d0c… https://t.co/hgcoeqofpO
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