In the year 2021, there were 41 billion attempted cyberattacks in the world and seven billion in Colombia. Cybercrimes generate more and more profitability for attackers and in this sense, if there are no tools to counteract them and be protected, the curve of cyberattacks for companies and government entities will continue to grow.
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Technologies to capture and store carbon must be part of the arsenal to fight climate change. To deploy them at scale, policymakers should expand federal incentives, increase RD&D for traditional and novel technologies, and expedite permitting and siting of requisite infrastructure.
This report is an updated look at our 2012 publication titled Technology Works: High-Tech Employment and Wages in the United States, a first-of-its-kind look at high-technology sector employment, wages, and the ripple effect the sector has on job creation in local metros. Given the high-tech’s importance to the U.S. economy, revisiting the so-called “local multiplier effect” is important to provide updated context to policymakers as they consider the growth of the high tech sector.
The Ukraine war vividly underscores the vulnerability of fossil fuel importers to geopolitical machinations. In the long run, due to viable alternatives to fossil fuels and the imperatives of climate change, the use of oil and gas as strategic leverage is demonstrably self-defeating.
A new paper by Jack Mintz and Ron Wallace warns that overly rapid transitions to net zero will invite serious unintended consequences.
18 months of negotiations have led to Members merely clarifying flexibilities that already exist and making some of these more burdensome to avail. In such a scenario, Members will fare better by utilising TRIPS in its original form and channeling their time and resources on models of collaboration that have proven to be effective.
For more than a month, Russia has been waging a war of aggression in Ukraine. The German economy is also increasingly feeling the consequences. A continuously updated IW survey shows that high energy prices and delivery problems in particular are putting more and more pressure on companies.
Although the expansion progress has recently stagnated: the Federal Government would like to accelerate the pace of the energy conversion to renewable energies (RE) in the future. The pressure to act to implement timely progress is growing. At the same time, more than one in ten employees reports that their own work touches on the cross-sectional sector of renewable energy.
In recent days there has been talk of dollarization and stabilization of the economy. From the Fundación Libertad y Progreso they proposed a new scheme: convertibility with a trust abroad. What is it about?
The war in Ukraine creates new and exacerbates existing adjustment burdens for the entire economy. In the following article, orientation points for the economic effects of the war on the German economy are shown.