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• [New] China will continue to consolidate the results of poverty elimination, dovetail new measures with rural vitalization, and comprehensively push forward rural vitalization by introducing more vigorous measures and pooling more resources.
• [New] Companies will need to illustrate the role that they intend to play - not only in combating climate change - but in forging a business model that is resilient to, and profitable in, the low carbon, resource-efficient economy of the 21st century.
• [New] As the potential threat from China has grown, the national security establishment has begun to shift some resources away from terrorism to other challenges.
• [New] Continued investments in skills, institutions, infrastructure, and services will help Indonesia sustainably and fully benefit from its ocean resources.
• [New] Expect far greater concerns over the next 30 years about sustainability and what kind of planet will remain in 100 years, with shortages of water, food and other resources and major threats to other forms of life.
• [New] Risks to U.S. security include extreme weather impacting installations, increased resource scarcity and food insecurity, climate migration increasing the number of refugees and internally displaced people's, and the Arctic as a new sphere of competition.
• [New] Abundance of renewable energy resources including natural gas reserves, presence of numerous hydrogen storage facilities in UAE, Oman & Kuwait along with well-developed existing natural gas grids will support the Middle East to develop a hydrogen economy.
• [New] Further to the Experimentation Direction to Deputy Heads, in 2021-22, Public Safety Canada will enhance awareness and capacity in experimentation by increasing knowledge events and providing the resources required by employees to conduct methodologically sound experiments.
• [New] Security agencies are concerned that there will be increased competition for scarce natural resources and that Beijing's control of supplies could be used as leverage in any disputes.
• [New] Without sufficient connectivity, the increased availability of storage, computing, and networking resources around the globe will mean nothing to an end user with subpar connectivity.
• [New] Improvements in energy and resource efficiency will play a particularly significant role in reducing industrial emissions in the 2020s, leading the way in widespread emissions reductions whilst infrastructure for deep decarbonisation options is built up throughout the decade.
• [New] Biden's American Jobs Plan includes a $100 billion investment in the power grid, including tax credits to incentivize the deployment of at least 20 GW of high-voltage capacity power lines, as well as extending and expanding tax credits for clean energy resources, including energy storage.
• [New] Li-Cycle's process creates safer waste streams for individuals working in waste management as it reduces the risk of fires by removing lithium-ion batteries from the traditional waste streams.
• [New] The primary issue facing the airfreight sector was how to scale up and adapt existing infrastructure, processes and resources that normally support routine vaccine programs for an expected surge of emergency shipments to immunize 7.8 billion people worldwide.
• [New] Abandoning the standardized-testing system will penalize Asian families, often poor, who have dedicated their limited resources to ensuring that their children can take advantage of every opportunity.
• [New] Greenland offers the US and its allies the opportunity to reduce their dependence on China for resources essential to their defence and security.
• [New] Even while the scale of resources required to procure and deploy vaccines globally demands considerable multilateral financing - not only through COVAX, but also from International Financial Institutions, including the World Bank-US bilateral assistance could have an important role to play.
• 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.
• India will still need resources to meet electricity demand during times when both sun and wind levels are too low.
• Increased crop and livestock production during the next 5 to 7 decades will significantly increase the demand on all water resources, especially in the western, southern, and central United States and in many regions of the world with low rainfall.
• As spectrum is a scarce resource, Thai operators will need to balance their resources between the new 5G users and the majority of existing 4G users, especially when 5G device-adoption takes off.
• The Government of Canada, including Natural Resources Canada, plays a role in helping people affected by potential floods manage the risks.

Last updated: 14 April 2021