The Globalist

What share of the global economy is represented at the G20 summit?

Can the G20 summit help advance international cooperation on the environment?

The G20 summit will represent a fifth of the world’s governments.

More than half of the global population is represented at the annual G20 summit.

Stable and secure countries produce most of two key metals for battery production.

Emerging market economies in a post-oil era might find themselves in the same traps when mining for the necessary metals.

Cobalt is the rechargeable battery component that is most geopolitically risky to obtain.

While pioneering Japan is no longer home to the biggest high-speed rail network in the world, it remains premiere.

Spain, France and Germany have the largest high-speed train networks after China and Japan.

The fledgling network does not compare well to other countries with high-speed trains.