The world’s air carriers are preparing their cabins for take-off. After 18 months in which passenger planes were laid up in desert boneyards, converted into makeshift medical-supplies freighters, and even flown on short return hops just to maintain their pilots’ certifications, the machinery of the global aviation industry is gradually creaking back into life. Emirates, the biggest carrier by international ...

The supply-chain crisis is driving a wedge through Big Tech. Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. posted robust earnings results, as their software and internet-focused business models allowed them to avoid much of the supply-chain headwinds affecting other industries. But Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc showed how vulnerable they were to the supply-chain mess. And it ...

For five decades, international environmental meetings have been riven by a north-south divide. While the rich nations of the global north have led calls to rein in emissions, their less affluent counterparts have largely remained on the sidelines. The Kyoto Protocol was in essence a treaty between the wealthy Group of Seven nations, the former Soviet Union, Australia and New ...