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Brazil – This week Brazil’s government announced that it will no longer be hosting the UN global summit on climate change next year citing costs. The conference could cost Brazil up to $100 million. Brazil spent $4.6 billion on the 2015 Olympic games and it is expected that $33 trillion worth of damage worldwide will result from climate change by 2050 according to a 2016 report. Brazil’s prime minister, Mr. Bolsonaro, has called manmade climate change a plot by “Marxists” to stifle economic growth.

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President Xi Jinping leaves Imperial College on a state visit in 2015

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Chen Jining: the Imperial graduate tipped to be in the race for Xi's successor

Following major elections across the West and several transfers of power, China's leadership post-Xi Jinping is a topic gaining greater prominence. Now 71 and in the middle of his third five-year term in power, the topic of his successor has become more prescient as he heads towards a

By Mohammad Majlisi