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Until 26 June 2025, Stichting AK Rabobank Certificaten held all Rabobank Certificates (formerly known as: participations) issued by Rabobank. Stichting AK Rabobank Certificaten held these Rabobank ...
Agri commodity markets outlook 2025: Fat tariffs lead to slim margins 2024 has been a year of further price declines for major grains and oilseeds and for sugar, while tropical tree crops like cocoa, ...
Introduction In part 2 and part 3 of our series on Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), we showed how the BESS markets in the UK and Italy are rapidly growing thanks to the combination of high ...
Due to the continuing mismatch between supply and demand, owner-occupied homes are expected to become 8.6% more expensive on average this year, followed by a slightly lower price increase of 5.7% in ...
In the US, data suggests that Generation Z is drinking less alcohol than previous generations did at the same age. Most industry experts believe that this trend is driven by young people's concerns ...
In Figure 2 (left), we observe diverging trends in GDP and GHG emission levels in the Netherlands between 1990 and 2022 (both data series are indexed to 1990=1). In terms of growth rates, GDP growth ...
Trade liberalization, regional specialization, and year-round demand have transformed US agricultural trade over the past three decades. The US now faces increasing trade deficits in horticultural ...
By mid-2024, Europe had achieved a total wind power capacity of 278 GW. The EU contributes significantly to this: it holds 225 GW of Europe’s wind power capacity, of which 205 GW is onshore and 20 GW ...
More authors The re-election of President Trump has accelerated Europe’s impulse to rearm. In this article we assess the part of that spending that could generate long-term positive spillovers to the ...
So, economic statecraft is just one leg of a three-legged grand strategy stool of ways to achieve national security ends within given national means. As Von Clausewitz infamously argued, “war is a ...
Climate change is increasingly impacting companies globally, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent and intense. By 2050, under a high-emissions scenario, 36% of companies in Asia, 6% in ...