Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

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

One big part of Egypt's economic malaise is just how much the military is involved with

business.

They make everything from cement to pasta to a copycat of the most popular dairy brand.

We ask why so many generals are general managers.

And in just seven decades, ascending to the summit of Mount Everest has gone from something

never done by anyone to something done by hundreds of people each year.

But Russia's invasion of Ukraine has thinned out crowds at the top of the world.

You're stuck though.

War in Ukraine and spiking energy prices had already driven many countries to reconsider

their dependence on Russian oil and gas.

Even before gas supplies were cut off to Poland and Bulgaria.

For some countries, that's meant investigating homegrown sources of energy, including

the fossil fuel heavy options they'd been moving away from.

But even as the global picture keeps shifting in the face of a pandemic and now full-fledged

war, countries' commitments to climate targets remain, including the landmark Paris agreement.

Lots of governments and companies haven't been doing enough to meet those targets, so

increasingly climate activists are finding new ways to pressure them by taking them to court.

So we're seeing a large number of court cases that cite climate changes as a central issue

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