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2020

What's Changing? - Belt & Road Initiative

Submitted by Halcyon In Business on 11 September 2023
Belt & Road Initiative

 

Introduction

China's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative is one of the most ambitious geopolitical projects ever. By 2027, it aims to dish out an estimated $1.3 trillion in loans, around ten times what the US spent on the Marshall Plan in the aftermath of World War II. As China increases its investment in the West, will countries' loyalty shift toward Beijing? About 80 countries have already joined, and dozens more are flirting with the idea. For a world that badly needs more and better infrastructure, Belt and Road is a good thing

On Gardens

Submitted by Halcyon In Kal… on 4 September 2023
Angus in Genval

 

“This is happiness,” Willa Cather’s fictional narrator gasps as he sinks into his grandmother’s garden, “to be dissolved into something complete and great.” A generation later, in a real-life counterpart, Virginia Woolf arrived at the greatest epiphany of her life  - and to this day perhaps the finest definition of what it takes to be an artist - while contemplating the completeness and greatness abloom in the garden.

What's Changing? - Risk

Submitted by Halcyon In Business on 2 August 2023
Risk

 

Please see below selected recent risk-related change.

 

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August 2023

  • Our World in Data chronicled the number of reported global natural disaster events from 1923 to 2023, including those from extreme temperatures, droughts, wildfires, extreme weather, and floods. There is an undeniable increase in reported natural disasters and while it's often difficult to attribute a single event directly to climate change, the upward trend in occurrences is evident. 

 

June 2023

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