Global growth forecast to slow to 1.9% in 2023, warn UN economists

PNP DeskJanuary 25, 2023September 9, 202408 mins

This will be one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades, apart from during the 2007-8 financial crisis and the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In most countries we expect that private consumption and investment will weaken due to inflation and higher interest rates”, said Ingo Pitterle, Senior Economist at the UN Department of…

Melting glaciers could cause deadly global pandemics

PNP DeskOctober 31, 2022September 9, 202403 mins

Scientists from the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa in Canada examined samples taken from the Arctic’s Lake Hazen to study how climate change could cause viruses to be transmitted to other organisms. Melting glaciers as a result of rising global temperatures could potentially be the cause of the next deadly global pandemic,…