Our Scans · (ZY.4.07) Development Studies · Weekly Summary

• [New] The gradual increase in green investments reflects Egypt's commitment to transforming climate challenges into opportunities for growth and achieving a balance between environmental transformation and economic development objectives. Dailynewsegypt - Egypt's Only Daily Independent Newspap
• [New] If biofuels development accelerates, it could lead to cumulative investments of $1.5 trillion across all sustainable fuel types by 2035. The Jakarta Post
• [New] Countries such as Brazil and India see biofuels as an opportunity to combine climate action and economic development with new jobs and supply chains for biofuels. The Jakarta Post
• [New] The New Development Bank, or BRICS Bank, established in 2015, plays a crucial role by increasingly financing infrastructure and sustainable development projects in local currencies, with a goal to lend 30% of its loans in local currencies by 2026. BRICS
• [New] Blockchain technology will continue to play a significant role in contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. EvaCodes
• [New] Beyond 2025, investment in sustainable Arctic infrastructure will continue, including the development of green ports, advanced search and rescue facilities, and improved communication networks. FreightAmigo
• [New] If governments want to meet their development and climate goals, we will need to accelerate big investments into sustainable energy, industry, climate resilience, and the next generations of climate solutions, especially in the Asia Pacific. The Investor Agenda
• [New] $656.9 million over five years is going to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to develop and commercialize dual civilian-military technologies in a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, marine, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, biodefence and life sciences. PLANT
• [New] An important measure that could both support small-scale fisheries and contribute to countries' contributions under global frameworks such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is the formal exclusion of destructive industrial fishing from nearshore waters. Yahoo News Canada
• [New] Qatar's National Vision 2030 emphasizes technology as an enabler for human and social development, with particular focus on education technology and healthcare innovation. #1 Futurist Speaker on AI Leadership, Future of Work, F
• [New] Decarbonization pathways such as the UK cement industry's decarbonization roadmap and the action plan for supplementary cementitious materials and carbon capture by 2035, will require sustained research and development to overcome technical, economic, and regulatory barriers. CCBP
• [New] China's substantial talent reserves, industrial clusters, and economic scale are inseparable from institutional designs like the Five-Year Plans and the 15-Year Science and Technology Development Plan. Medium
• [New] People project that quantum computing will not become a reality until maybe the end of this decade, maybe midway through the next decade, but there's a lot of picks and shovels, companies that are already profitable and already creating meaningful economic development opportunities. Yahoo Finance
• [New] Ongoing technological advances, digitalization solutions, are encouraging the heavy investment by governments of MEA in smart, advanced and robust infrastructure, as a major part of national development and economic diversification plans (e.g., Saudi Vision 2030). Precedence Research
• [New] To encourage Morocco, Washington could offer to strongly support the development of Western Sahara; for Algeria, it could offer enhanced economic and security cooperation. The Washington Institute
• [New] A new Defence and Security Business Mobilization Program will be created at the Business Development Bank of Canada with $1.0 billion in 2025-26 to provide loans, venture capital, and advisory services to small and medium-sized businesses. True North Strategic Review
• [New] China: China has emphasized its fusion energy goals as part of its recently released 15th Five-Year Plan for economic development covering 2026 to 2030. k.dulon
• [New] China will further deepen reform across the board, expand opening up, and promote higher-quality economic growth while achieving an appropriate increase in economic output, and advance well-rounded human development and common prosperity for all. Antara
• [New] Technological self-reliance has become a core pillar of China's national security and development strategy, especially as global tensions and export restrictions expose vulnerabilities in its innovation ecosystem. China Briefing News
• [New] The NCTL is a nation-building opportunity for B.C. and Canada that will unleash the economic potential of the North Coast and develop critical mines, port expansions and LNG and resource development, powering growing communities. BC Gov News
• [New] 2025's Expo will focus on Working Together to Make Digital Trade a New Engine for Common Development and Inject New Momentum into World Economic Growth. Yahoo Finance
• [New] Gartner expects AI infrastructure software spending, which includes app development, storage, security and virtualization tools that support IT, to skyrocket to $230 billion in 2026, up from $60 billion last year. CIO Dive

Last updated: 21 November 2025