Planetary Events

Planet and Beyond

26/07/2021

Billionaire Mr. Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.
China: A trading powerhouse

03/12/2020

China’s exports continue to grow strongly. In October, exports (denominated in US dollars) were up 11.4% from a year earlier, faster than the 9.9% growth recorded in September. This was the fastest export growth in more than a year and a half.
The economics of vaccines

20/11/2020

PFIZER and BioNTech announced a test of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 that has been 90% successful. Pfizer said it can produce 10 to 15 million doses by yearend.
Nobel Gold Medals Awarded

16/12/2019

On December 10, 2019 Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway hosted the 2019 Nobel Prize award ceremony.
Secretary-General’s Trillion

21/11/2019

Keeping the global warming at bay is worth a lot. The first results of the UN summit were summed up, at which priority measures to limit the increase in the temperature of the Earth were presented.
WHO warns Humanity

18/10/2019

WHO experts have discovered a new virus that poses a real threat to humanity. The pathogenic influenza-like microbes, which spread by airborne transmission, can travel around the planet in a matter of a few days and infect millions of people.
A Lady in the Bank

09/10/2019

Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva will serve as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the next five years.
Flying on Hydrogen

03/10/2019

Great Britain is financing the work on developing hydrogen engines for passenger planes. Mass production is planned in three years’ time.
When Trees Are Felled the Chips Will Burn

06/08/2019

Ethiopia planted 353 million trees in one day, and in Russia on the same day the total area of forest fires exceeded 2 million hectares.
Form and Substance: G20 Summit in Osaka

01/08/2019

For the fourteenth time, the leaders of the G20 countries gathered together. As predicted by the experts of the PDI, the main achievement of this summit, alas, was the fact of their meeting.
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