Boost for Green Protectionism France and Germany have agreed to tie the COVID economic recovery funding to an expedited adoption of Green Deal measures that may or may not help the Bloc’s near-term growth. In addition to stepped up environmental protection, the plan calls for reshoring and boosting Europe’s “sovereignty” over “critical” supplies. The plan would impose border measures against products from other countries deemed unworthy while boosting state aid for coveted industries. Partially driving the shift is the defection of French members of Parliament from President Emmanuel Macron’s party to a new group advocating social and environmental justice. However, it is unclear that nationalizati...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.