Nord Stream 2 and Vaccines for Everyone

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17 min listen
Elchin Mammadov, Namita Nair
February 25, 2022
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As the Russian escalation in Ukraine continues, Germany has decided to suspend certification of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline that would have doubled Russia’s natural gas export capacity to Germany. We discussed what this move means for the energy mix of Western Europe and what companies are exposed to the pipeline’s construction. Then, we discussed the equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine: which company has distributed the most vaccines to lower income countries and which company has distributed the least, and why it matters.
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Elchin Mammadov
Elchin Mammadov
Executive Director, MSCI Research
Namita Nair
Namita Nair
Vice President, MSCI Research

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