The increase in climatic incidents is raising awareness that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is the cause. It is then the responsibility of States to conduct policies aimed at reducing them. But a consensus is difficult to reach because the phenomenon is global and there is no link between a country's action and the benefits it will be able to derive from it. It is the accumulation over the years that is the cause. Emerging countries, because of their growth, generate more and more emissions, but they can legitimately claim that they are much less responsible ...

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At a time when divisions are being displayed in Europe and the United States, meetings are multiplying without any real results, in Tianjin and Beijing, the leaders of Russia and the main Asian countries are giving a completely different image of the world. The meeting of the states belonging to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Iran, was an opportunity to deliver messages of peace and fruitful collaboration between the members in complete contradiction with the prevailing climate among Western countries, largely due to the aggressive economic measures announced and sometimes implemented by Washington.

These meetings ...

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At a time when two major political crises are affecting the world, the war in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia and Israel's response to the massacres perpetrated by Hamas, the President of the United States was launching a trade war with an increase in customs duties imposed on all companies exporting to his country. It thus added to the disruption caused by these crises on supply chains an additional uncertainty that was detrimental to household consumption and business investment, and therefore to growth.

In doing so, Donald Trump broke with nearly a century of practices in favour of ...

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