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Italy blocks vaccine shipments to Australia in the first use of EU vaccine export rules. The UN warns that a surge of poverty and unemployment in Latin American could set the region back by more than a decade. Pope Francis arrives in Iraq in a papal first, amid concerns about the country’s security and COVID-19 situation.

Condition Updates

A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.

Green COVID Recovery and the Future of Transportation

As vaccination drives ramp up and governments worldwide plan the reopening of their economies, activists and experts alike are urging leaders to take advantage of this inflection point to pursue a “green recovery.” Transportation is a key sector in which this green transition is taking place - since the onset of the pandemic, governments and corporations have accelerated plans to shift toward sustainable transportation and incentivize decarbonizing the transit  industry.

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