At COP28, we can help transform the entire climate finance infrastructure for impact. We are calling on international financial institutions and multilateral development banks to help.

Unstable geopolitics traps money in defence spending and away from economic development to this day, in a pattern that goes back to 1948. Change is needed, with big challenges ahead.

Economic reform is key to the future of a region which needs to diversify away from dependency on oil, or a reliance on international funding. There has been both resistance and progress so far.

The grain deal between Russia and China is part of a growing trade portfolio and has important implications for both countries and the rest of the world.

Memories of death and destruction during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel are still ripe among Lebanese people who have yet to recover. Meanwhile, it's in a deep economic crisis.

From a devalued currency to a disproportionate impact on the tech sector and a collapse in foreign investment, the problems caused by Netanyahu's political crisis will be worse during open conflict

The impact of the crisis in the Middle East may pull millions more people into poverty. It will also complicate the reform process of the IMF and the World Bank to better reflect a changing globe.

Calls for a clampdown are likely to follow armed groups' use of digital money. But even if limits are introduced, they are not expected to be as effective as those on traditional currency.

Before war struck, poverty and jobless rates were sky-high and could now soar further, as conflict wipes out signs of a recovery in growth. The wider world is watching the impact on energy markets.

The global economy is intricately tied to politics and peace and Israel's war on Gaza raises geopolitical tensions in an already tense global climate.