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"If there are millions of barrels a day of new oil, that will add quite a lot of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and the people of Earth can't afford that," said professor John Sterman. He warned that increased drilling would lower global oil prices and slow the shift to renewables, worsening climate change.

Professor of the practice Athanasios Orphanides said the post-pandemic period had exposed the cost of misreading inflation. "If we look at the post-pandemic experience, many central banks around the world did not calibrate policy correctly and ended up with inflation that was significantly higher than the definitions of price stability that they were aiming for," he said.

According to professor Yasheng Huang, what sets China apart is that it hasn't abandoned traditional manufacturing industries when it moves toward high-tech development. While maintaining competitiveness in sectors like textiles and low-cost consumer goods, Chinese businesses are simultaneously expanding into cutting-edge industries such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and electronics.

Do you tend to rely more on freelancers, temporary workers, or part-time employees rather than full-time staff? Exercise caution, warns Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman. These "disposable employees" receive less training, fewer opportunities for advancement, less job security, and fewer benefits. This often purely accounting-driven decision is detrimental to companies in the long run, according to his research.

During the Energy Summit 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, principal research scientist Florian Berg summarized the challenge of building more reliable mechanisms for carbon markets. "Our hope is that the market will learn from the mistakes of the past," he said.

Professor Roberto Rigobon said: "When one party has a monopoly and another doesn't, the relationship ceases to be mutually beneficial and becomes a zero-sum game. The real challenge is to prevent the new digital economy from concentrating even more power in the hands of a few players."