By 2050, more than 1.6bn people, including almost 20% of the African population, will be exposed to severe and extreme droughts, if a pessimistic scenario plays out, according to a report by INFORM Climate Change.
Despite its promise, the project’s success may ultimately rest on market uptake. If industrial demand for hydrogen fails to keep pace with supply - or if pricing frameworks are not supportive - the pipeline could struggle.
Direct knock-on effects from US–China trade war stymie Mongolian economy.
Moscow has even considered asking Kazakhstan to run some of its domestic flight connections.
Imperial attitudes undermine ambitions for expanded influence.
Ulaanbaatar welcomes two Central Asian leaders in June.
Zandanshatar Gombojav’s past may bother nervous foreign investors. But says one expert: “Today he presents himself as a reform-minded stabiliser, not a threat to foreign capital.”
Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai set out to end corruption – but it was questions over his own wealth that proved his undoing.
Protests have mounted with demonstrators demanding to know source of Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai’s family wealth.
Once the primary provider of capital across much of the world, Beijing now finds itself at the receiving end of record repayments, particularly from some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations.
Particulate matter that can enter the bloodstream, has been measured at 27 times the level the WHO says is safe. And things are getting worse.