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WHAT''S NEXT?: Oceans, animals, and land are all under threat from climate change and human activities. The effective and efficient conservation of agricultural biodiversity is vital to meeting the global challenges of food and nutritional security for an expanding world population. But, the signs are of continued degradation of our global natural resources and environment.

[New] Growing Canada's forests will generate many long-term benefits such as increasing biodiversity, cleaning air and water, creating green jobs, reducing community risks to natural disasters, cooling cities and enhancing the well-being of Canadians for generations to come.
[New] Major changes are expected in the space environment due to the imminent launch of NewSpace (sometimes Space 2.0) systems, particularly large low Earth orbit constellations that will change the space operations environment.
[New] Growth in U.S. natural gas production remains subdued, with limited growth even for associated natural gas, based on what we expect to be a slow recovery in oil production volumes in 2021.
[New] A unit of Occidental Petroleum Corp. is partnering in a pilot project that could produce 1 metric tons / month of ethylene using human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of hydrocarbon feedstocks like natural gas and oil.
[New] China is building so-called safe cities, which integrate data from intrusive surveillance systems to predict and prevent everything from fires to natural disasters and political dissent.
[New] The UK is in a global race to secure the rare-earth elements that are crucial for fighter jets, wind turbines and electric cars amid fears that China could use its monopoly of them as a weapon.
[New] Since emissions are free in the U.S. and many other countries, a Canadian carbon price could prompt industry to relocate to jurisdictions with weaker environmental standards - eliminating Canadian jobs and increasing global emissions.
[New] Canada's largest pipeline companies TC Energy and Enbridge Inc see opportunities in their extensive natural gas businesses as a transition to cleaner energy evolves.
[New] Africa's urban dwellers are increasingly vulnerable to the risks related to demographic pressure such as the impacts of climate and environmental change, and social, political and economic hazards.
[New] With a total investment of more than $30 billion, the LNG plant we will be exporting at least 7.5 million tons of liquefied gas per year with 10% of the produced natural gas is for domestic uses.
[New] Establishing TLNG, Timor-Leste has feed gas from Greater Sunrise, and gas to LNG plant itself could be designed as an inlet point at TLNG or outlet point from pipeline could have direct connection; one to connect to TLNG and the other direct connection to power plants which utilized natural gas.
[New] In India, China could go democratic tomorrow and it would not matter as long as the active border dispute remains, China is Pakistan's best friend, and Chinese military vessels remain increasingly active in the Indian Ocean.
[New] Hoegh Giant will be the first FSRU operating in India and will deliver natural gas to the 57-kilometre Jaigarh-Dabhol pipeline connecting the LNG import terminal to the national gas grid.
[New] The Chenab Bridge - having a length of 1.315 km - will be the highest railway bridge in the world being 359m above the river bed level and will be 35 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris (France).
[New] Ocean acidification: Rising atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing the acidity of the world's oceans, posing a severe risk to marine biodiversity and particularly invertebrates whose shells dissolve in acidic waters.
[New] Private 5G MEC from AWS and Verizon brings ultra-low latency to dedicated, closed, on-premises environments for use cases such as autonomous mobile robots, quality assurance, and hazard alerting.
[New] The global significance of drylands is going to increase due to climate change, as forecasted increases in aridity worldwide will expand the global extent of drylands by up to 23% by the end of this century.
[New] Air-scooping electric propulsion could extend the lifetime of very low Earth orbit satellites by providing periodic reboosting to maintain orbital altitudes using a solar array-powered space vehicle augmented with electric propulsion and ambient air as a propellant.
[New] Venezuela is among the 10 most biodiverse countries in the world and home to 13% of the world's bird species, meaning that the Maduro regime's activities pose a threat to global biodiversity.
[New] Supply chains are concentrated mainly in the US and allied countries, but some supply chain segments, such as leading-edge logic chip manufacturing, have consolidated in regions posing higher risks of natural disasters, geopolitical events, or other disruptions.
[New] Climate change, a direct cause of many core disasters across the globe continues to increase the impacts and risks of disasters such as wildfires and floods.
[New] The goal of the USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment activity is to strengthen regional capacity to manage shared water resources and mitigate environmental risks in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins.
[New] Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rapidly declining soil fertility are critically damaging the health of people and the planet, dislocating societies, and threatening food systems around the world.

Last updated: 10 April 2021

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