With November's cluster of multilateral meetings -- G20, COP27 and the Apec Economic Leaders' Meeting, for instance -- there is some good news: we don't have to create high carbon emissions to produce economic growth.
Consider the growing number of high-to-middle-income economies that have maintained growth while cutting emissions. It's welcome news in 2022 -- a year of renewed vigour and live gatherings once again after the gloom of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its effects on the health, social fabric and economic well-being of the world have been severe, its damage incalculable.
The pandemic has made one thing clear: global crises can only be dealt with by many governments working together towards a single goal.
