While the coronavirus is still spreading and the vaccine rollout is more challenging than anticipated, the latest manufacturing PMI are resisting well and improving.

The global stock market concluded the year on an all-time high, with investors cheering the news flow and the start of the vaccination process in regions such as the US, the UK and the Eurozone, despite a pandemic still out of control in many of those – and other – regions.

Hydrogen has long been talked about as a source of energy of the future

The year ended with financial markets firing on all cylinders and this carried on through the first week of January as, one by one, risks faded into the background on investors’ list of priorities.

The market continued to push strongly ahead in December. Bears are yet to find this market’s kryptonite for them to beat a retreat.

The circular economy offers an alternative to limit pollution of the sea, air and land and reduce the overexploitation of natural resources.

The transport sector is responsible for 25% of all direct CO2 emissions on our planet, with cars, buses and motorbikes accounting for three quarters of them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to revolutionise the diagnosis, surveillance and treatment of several diseases. Driven by technological development and research progress, growth in the AI market will surge over the next decade. An explanation.

The pandemic of 2020 has clearly shown that we can no longer ignore the economic and social costs of unbridled environmental decimation.