In one of the largest energy supply shocks yet, forecasts show crude is likely to top $200 a barrel...

The sanctions imposed against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine are not the first time oil embargoes have been used as a political tool. History tells us that the latest wave of embargoes will lead to positive long-term benefits: innovation, efficiency and more self-sufficiency....

Design is based on historical data that is not adequate anymore for the increasing severity of global warming....

The financial sector can protect itself by cutting exposure to climatic shocks and invest in sustainable projects...

Central banks around the world are scrambling to implement measures to bring down inflation....

Roosevelt’s New Deal in the Dust Bowl thick of the Great Depression is an approach worth examining....

The commodity sector has long been defined by its price cyclicality — peak-trough-peak movements — often referred to as booms and busts. Though cyclicality has been a prominent feature of the sector for centuries, we still tend to become over-optimistic that booms will last forever....

Neither $8.5bn from the US and Europe nor the risk of restrictions is likely to cause immediate political change....

Affordability of basic services is important to constituents, and renewable energy could drastically reduce costs....

Trade restrictions against high emissions countries are imminent, which will hit SA’s economy....

Windfalls have not always stimulated the structural reforms required to boost the economy....

Increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters pose risk of mounting global defaults....

The fallout of ensuing wars shows that an eye for an eye can often leave us blind....

Already well endowed with key minerals, China is cosying up to the Taliban as the US leaves....

The latest UN report on climate should shock us into realising we are less than two decades away from a full-blown crisis....