New Normal

• [New] Both biodiversity loss and climate change having been ranked as two of the top five threats facing humanity in the current decade by the World Economic Forum, which estimates more than half of the world's GDP - or $44tr - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services. / Business Green
• [New] The alien workers who do not become legal residents of the United States will not receive any income from the wages they earned while they labored on the soil of the United States. / Bhavanajagat
• [New] Heavy-handed tactics could undercut political support from the American electorate, while diplomatic fallout could damage U.S. diplomatic and economic relations abroad. / 19FortyFive
• [New] Invasive alien species are widespread phenomena recognized as one of the main global threats to biodiversity, with escalating impacts at ecological, economic, and human health levels. / Frontiers
• [New] Biodiversity in the EU and globally is under immense pressure from human-driven land - and sea use changes, the overexploitation of biological resources, pollution, natural and man-made disaster risks, climate change and the spread of invasive alien species. / wp-content
• In Israel, political parties coalesced around anti-Palestinian policies without fear of alienating a vital ally that was ostensibly aiming to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace. / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Governments and analysts in North America, Europe and beyond, including UN forums, will also be unable to ignore the possibility of wider regulation. / Transform
• Demand for telemedicine is expected to rise by 38% over the next five years as more and more patients become eager to take advantage of the convenience of digital healthcare. / Forbes
• A weakened jet stream driven by vanishing Arctic sea ice might play a large role in extreme winter events like the descending polar vortex that struck North America earlier in 2021. / Ars Technica
• Anomali Threat Research discovered a campaign targeting Ukrainian government officials with malicious files that could be repurposed to target government officials of other countries. / Anomali
• Despite volatility across markets and fears of inflation, interest rates are expected to be kept low until 2022 to support broad economic recovery. / University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• American citizens whose properties are in or near border towns are giving aid to illegal aliens who trespass onto their land, fearing they and their families could otherwise be in danger. / Prepare for Change
• STAR can be used to calculate the benefits of restoration: global extinction risk could potentially be reduced by 56% through comprehensive restoration of threatened species' habitats. / IUCN
• Further Japanese-South Korean alignment on unconventional threats cannot be neglected if Biden is to succeed in renovating U.S. alliances in anticipation of great-power competition. / War on the Rocks
• The EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030 identifies the key drivers in biodiversity loss as changes in land and sea use, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, and invasive alien species. / South Africa
• The EU could make more frequent use of its trade defence instruments, particularly its anti - dumping tools, where the prices proposed by Chinese firms are abnormally low. / ECFR
• Nearly 70% of people around the world believed that their increased Internet usage in all aspects of life signified a new normal that will continue indefinitely in the future. / assets
• The evolution towards new hybrid working models will enable Capgemini to deploy its New Normal operating model leading to additional cost savings and more efficient resource deployment. / Capgemini Worldwide
• Archard's suggestion is particularly strange considering the UK's embrace of age-based vaccine prioritisation - which does not express the view that younger people are of lesser worth, but simply the view that they, by and large, face lower risk if infected. / Journal of Medical Ethics
• The Chinese government might use unconventional ways to obtain user data; for example, by using the domestic National Security Law on TikTok's parent company ByteDance, which is headquartered in Beijing, to turn over data. / The Citizen Lab
• We know that heat sensitivity is common in multiple sclerosis, and climate scientists expect that periods of anomalously warm weather will become more frequent with climate change. / Medical Express
• A considerable portion of New Hope's farms in Hebei and Shandong were impacted by atypical swine fever strains. / Polish Media
• The post-pandemic new normal points to a possible reset in global economic activity and trade patterns, further complicated by the risks of technology bifurcation, amid an increasingly protectionist environment. / AMRO ASIA

Last updated: 09 May 2021