Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.

In New York, I'm John Fassman.

And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Ever since Russia began weaponizing its supply of natural gas, Europe worried about the

prospect of an energy shortage.

It hasn't happened, a warm autumn has kept prices low and let Europe fill its storage capacity.

But winter is still coming.

And this year's Nobel Prize in physiology went to a Swedish researcher who pioneered

the sequencing of DNA from humanity's forebears.

His latest research doubles the number of Neanderthal genomes and suggests a thing or two

about how they lived.

The G20 summit began this morning in Bali, Indonesia.

For the next two days, leaders of the world's biggest economies, with the notable exception

of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, will be discussing some of the world's biggest problems.

While the summit is usually meant to be a forum to discuss economic issues, high up on this

year's agenda will be the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressed the summit remotely.

And for a just end to the war, without compromises for Ukraine's sovereignty, territory, and

independence.

On Monday, delegates were drafting a communique condemning the invasion and the threat to

use nuclear weapons.

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