Análisis

The international commitments of the United Nations Agenda 2030 have forced governments to rethink public mobility policy around the world. The change in public transport systems to electric units has put on the table the importance of China as an exporter of these units and the demand for global oil demand in the long term.
Of the total number of electric buses in the world, 95% are in China. From 2011, the change of energy matrix is a public goal, becoming the main producer and consumer of electric vehicles in the world. In Latin America, the use of electric buses is still incipient.
 This energy shift will be the new impetus for the growth of the global economy in the 21st century. It will also be an issue of confrontation between the United States and China; and of Latin America with the United States.

Los responsables de guiarnos en la emergencia del COVID19 la han llamado "una crisis sanitaria mundial de una vez en el siglo". Esta afirmación es incorrecta por dos motivos: 1) no podemos saber lo que el resto del siglo traerá; 2) esta calamidad global no es una crisis de salud, es una crisis sobre la vida misma.

La idea del antropoceno coloca a la actividad humana como la influencia dominante en el futuro de la vida en nuestro planeta. Sin emabrgo, esta nueva era geológica subraya el daño que nuestra especie está haciendo a los frágiles sistemas planetarios.

Si esta pandemia es una crisis sobre la vida misma, ¿qué conclusiones podríamos sacar de sus efectos hasta ahora sobre la sociedad humana?

The crisis over COVID-19 has hit the world economy as a whole. This note reviews the effects on the oil industry, the fall in the volume of world supply and demand, and the prices of crude oil quoted on international markets.

After the collapse of the oil price, a recovery in the energy sector will depend on the improvement in the price and the speed with which it is achieved. Prices are expected to remain low, and the sector is expected to suffer despite the market recovery.

In view of this negative environment in the industry, the possibility of greater investment in alternative energies and consequently a deepening of the change in the energy matrix must be envisaged.

La crisis económica que acompaña al COVID19 y su crisis sanitaria han generado desplomes de Bolsa de Valores que no se habían visto nunca. El declive ha sido más marcado que el ocurrido entre  1929-31 y más profundo.

Entre el 25 de febrero y el 23 de marzo, los mercados financieros habían perdido más del 30% del valor de sus activos y la perspectiva era peor. La solución inmediata fue inyectar liquidez al sistema financiero en EEUU, lo cual fue reproducido por el BCE y el Banco de Inglaterra.

La economía estadounidense acumula, desde febrero de 2020, más de 27 millones de empleos perdidos, el más alto en toda su historia. Las bolsas de valores frente a un incontrolable desempleo abre la interrogante sobre la importancia que tiene el sector financiero para los tomadores de decisiones y definidores de políticas.

Since December 31, 2019 the world has gone from predictions of declining economic growth/recession to being faced with the first global economic contraction since the 1930s.

Never before in peacetime has a country closed its factories and not shipped its finished products. This time manufacturing and foreign trade were frozen in China. Nor had it ever been seen that all services in all countries, some more than others, closed simultaneously, except for the United States, Great Britain and Mexico which closed later or did not close at all.

The contemporary societal lesson will be to have new forms of human contact, new forms of life. Global value chains must be rethought and industrialization policies must be rethought. Public health as a public good must return.