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This week, a look ahead to 2020.

What does the year have in store for the 130 billion gaming industry?

A political crackdown, we reckon.

But first, you may have noticed that the planet is slowly cooking.

Well, so have some of the world's biggest companies.

As part of our series of predictions

for the coming year, we're projecting a surge in green mergers and acquisitions as the

corporate world tries to get a handle on the risks of global warming. I sat down with my colleagues

and fellow columnists Chris Thompson and Dasher Afanisieva to find out why. So Chris, you've done a piece in this book that we're publicizing the 2020

predictions book, which is making quite a bold call that there's going to be more of a specific

type of dealmaking in 2020 we've seen historically.

What do you mean and why do you think that?

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