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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] PLNG will store LNG and dispatch natural gas to power plants, industrial and commercial customers and other consumers in the Philippines.
[New] Qatar and Iran share the largest gas field in the world, with Qatar promising to expand liquefied natural gas output by 40% per year by 2026.
[New] Work is expected to begin in 2021 on what would be the world's longest electrically heated pipeline, which will move crude oil from fields near Lake Albert in western Uganda 900 miles to Tanzania's Indian Ocean seaport of Tanga.
[New] If gas-fired plants become a larger part of China's electricity portfolio, maritime supply lines will become all the more sensitive for Beijing; a rival power could block seaborne gas shipments and thereby destabilize China's electric grid.
[New] Like Trump, Joe Biden opposes Nord Stream 2, an undersea gas pipeline that could double Russian natural gas sales to Germany.
[New] The US must proclaim to the entire Indian Ocean region including Pakistan - and to European capitals alike - that India's vaulting ambitions will not go unchecked.
[New] China will fully build a rural road transportation system that fits the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, matches the ecological environment and culture of rural areas, and is integrated with modern information and communication technologies by the middle of the 21th century.
[New] The strategic space environment will be shaped by emerging technology developments, which enable more sophisticated satellite networks, enhance Earth observation, and reduce costs while effectively broadening access to space.
[New] Within the vast expanse of cislunar space, there is important strategic geography that could become areas of tension, including the Earth-Moon Lagrange points.
[New] The days are numbered that Earth orbit will be considered more a part of outer space than an integral part of Earth's economic, political, and social structures.
[New] Within thirty years, the frontier of space commercialization will likely expand from the edge of GEO to cislunar space.
[New] The Lagrange points (and other advantageous orbital regions) may become contested as nations seek to observe and operate in cislunar space, and activity there will become all the more important in the coming decades.
[New] Corporations have been making money in Earth orbit for half a century and will continue to lead innovation in space, creating opportunities and challenges for governments.
[New] Even as commercial concerns begin to dominate Earth orbit in the short term, over the next thirty years, the frontier of economic activity in space will likely expand to encompass cislunar space, the spherical area formed by the radius between the Earth and the Moon.
[New] The legal, security, and physical architectures that the United States develops over the coming decades must explore opportunities for the commercial sector to plug in, or even take over, elements.
[New] Following the Low Earth and Lunar Orbits, the development of lunar surface modules is a new challenge that paves the way for joint governmental and commercial projects that will continue for the next 30 years.
[New] Bangladesh's expected graduation from the UN's Least Developed Country status in coming years will present opportunities but also challenges, including the eventual loss of preferential access to advanced economy markets and more rigorous environmental and labor standards.
[New] Some see a new competition emerging between the United States and China in space, with implications for the principles that will guide humanity's future beyond Earth.
[New] Threats such as climate change and populations growing across the world indicate that sustainable and responsible investment approaches that seek to consider environmental good and financial return are in demand.
[New] Far less attention is given to slow-onset climate hazards, such as sea level rise, which is increasing flood risk in low-lying cities like Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City, or drought, which affected communities living along the Mekong River.
[New] After a thorough review, RareX will begin a major drilling program later this month, which is designed to test a new geological model at its flagship Cummins Range rare earth element project in Western Australia's Kimberly.

Last updated: 17 April 2021

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