The OECD is an intergovernmental organization of mostly high-income countries that produces economic data, forecasts, and policy analysis.
OECD data show countries raised $75 billion to $92 billion a year for biodiversity from 2023 to 2025, less than half the $200 billion annual goal for 2030. That leaves $108 billion to $125 billion a year to find, and the reported data do not show the gap widening.
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Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy lists 69.1 trillion won of 10-year treasury bonds, sold at about 1.6%, that mature in 2029 and 2030. Officials call the immediate cost manageable, but next year's 96.3 trillion won of net new issuance adds debt that costs more than the old paper did.
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Australia's Treasury released a draft bill on October 15 to write the OECD's crypto reporting framework into law, with comment open until October 28. Cross-border exchanges are planned for 2028, and the OECD counts 77 jurisdictions committed by 2029.
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Nature argues that the 30x30 habitat target and the $30 billion conservation pledge are off course as COP17 opens on 19 October. The habitat half is less settled than the money, because a 14 October study suggests official figures may undercount protected land.
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China overtook the United States in 2024 as the world's largest R&D spender, according to OECD figures adjusted for purchasing power, Nature reported. Its latest five-year plan calls for substantial investment in fundamental research.
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Korea's National Assembly Futures Institute projects elementary enrollment falling 43.6% by 2032 against a near-flat teacher count. On its own ratios, teacher cost per pupil rises about 55% by 2032 at constant pay.
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IMF raised its 2026 growth forecast for South Korea to 3.3%, saying chip exports more than offset the Middle East war. That leaves Korea ahead of the US at 2.3%, the eurozone at 1.1% and Japan at 0.7% in the fund's projections.
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Harneys and dropRWA plan to issue tokenized catastrophe bonds from Bermuda in early 2027, into a market that held $65.6 billion in June. Each token would represent legal ownership, and securities and insurance rules still apply.
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Lithuania's tax inspectorate issued Order VA-63, defining which crypto users platforms must report under DAC8 rules in force since Jan. 1, 2026. The 2027 exchanges between EU tax offices draw on records being generated now, so a platform still building its due-diligence systems is already behind.
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Eight global banks raised their average 2026 growth forecast for South Korea to 3.5% in September, a sixth monthly rise, on surging chip exports. At 2.8% for 2027, just under the Bank of Korea's 2.9%, they expect a sharper slowdown than the central bank does.
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Researchers pooling 186 studies of more than 350,000 teachers found that teacher well-being goes with higher student motivation and achievement. Those small-to-moderate associations give schools a reason to care about teacher well-being for students' sake as well as for staffing.
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Fifteen economies, including the US, the EU, Japan and Korea, agreed to tackle overcapacity in EVs, batteries and solar panels without China. So far the commitment is sector platforms and technical talks before December, with no tariff or quota attached.
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Brussels is weighing a flat charge on every company with more than €100 million in EU revenue, in any sector, to avoid Trump's threatened tariffs. A uniform lump sum spread that widely would cost the most, per euro of sales, for the firms nearest the threshold.
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OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents that connect to over 4,000 business apps, while Capgemini finds only 2% of organizations running agents at scale. The payoff depends on OpenAI's business customers moving agents from pilots into paid work before doubts about reliability slow them down.
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SB 947, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 30, puts a human reviewer on firings and discipline decided primarily by AI from July 1, 2027. Its cost to employers depends on how 'primarily', and SB 951's 'in substantial part', end up being read.
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European Commission officials are weighing an annual lump-sum tax on companies operating in the EU with over EUR 100mn in revenue, whatever they sell. Apple could owe it as one large company among many, in a single yearly bill against the whole business.
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Gavin Newsom signed a law barring California employers from firing or disciplining workers on an AI system's judgment alone, effective July 1 next year. A human sign-off is cheap to add, and the costlier duty is the written notice explaining to each affected worker what data the system used.
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Label and Sovos are selling crypto platforms one system for CARF, whose first filings in 2027 cover trades made during 2026. Their bet is that exchanges and custodians would sooner buy one pipeline for CARF, FATCA, CRS and US 1099-DA forms than build their own.
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Ramp's AI Index shows US corporate token use up about 50% since July while AI spending fell, as effective token prices dropped 41%. Usage has not grown enough to cover the price cut, so competition between OpenAI and Anthropic has so far moved revenue from the two sellers to their customers.
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AMRO raised South Korea's 2027 growth forecast to 2.7% from 2.2%, more than double its 0.2-point lift to 3.3% for 2026. Its inflation forecasts moved a tenth of a point each way, so AMRO expects more output over the two years with no added price pressure.
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