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After a relative slowdown trend since 2012 and three years of remaining flat, global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by 1.4% in 2017, and another 1.7% in 2018, reaching...

Monopolisation of communication infrastructure (e.g. Chinese-dominated 5G infrastructure) increases the vulnerability of the communication systems, raising concerns about access to private, public, commercial, and military communications.

Chinese state-to-state finance is the highest sovereign lending in the LAC region, surpassing that of the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank. China Development Bank and China Eximbank have...

In 2018, globally, the fortunes of the billionaires increased by 12% (US$2.5 billion a day), while the wealth of of the 3.8 billion poorest people declined by 11%, according to Oxfam.

Chinese aims to become world leader in science and innovation by 2050. In 2017, China's R&D spending was about $378.6 billion (PPP), accounting for 21% of total...

An estimated 200 species are becoming extinct each day. We might be in the midst of the sixth mass extinction on Earth.

China and the EU account for about 50% of global trade. Europe is China’s largest trading partner and China is Europe's primary source of imports.

The inequality crisis is worsening. 82 percent of the wealth created last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who...

82% of the new wealth created in 2017 went to the wealthiest top 1%, while the poorest 50% of humanity (over 3.6 billion people) got nothing.

Bansak et al. used a machine learning approach to develop an algorithm for geographically placing refugees to optimize their overall employment rate. The algorithm improved the employment...