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Capital expenditures plunged 24.2% to 12.902bn rubles. The number of customers fell 9.1% to 46mn “as Beeline Russia continued to focus on improving the quality of the customer base and their engagement.”
9.1.9 Tourism sector news
The tourist flow from Russia to Turkey is expected to exceed 5mn trips by the end of this year, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) said in a statement on Tuesday. "With 185,000 Russians visiting Istanbul in October alone, the target of 5mn Russian tourists to Turkey in 2022 will undoubtedly be surpassed," the statement said. According to Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Russia ranked first in terms of tourist flow to Turkey in October. Russians visited the country 767,800 times in the reporting period, which is 15.2% less than in October 2021, and 3% less than in October 2019, the ATOR said. In the first ten months of 2022, Russia was second only to Germany in terms of tourist traffic to Turkey with 4.6mn arrivals, up by 6.2% y/y, and down 30.8% compared with the same period in 2019. Russians most often visited Antalya during this period (53.6%), with another 22% of trips made to Istanbul, and 6.9% of trips made to Aegean resorts, the Association added.
9.1.10 Utilities & Renewables sector news
Despite concerns about the effects of the current energy crisis, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion are expected to grow by just under 1% this year, according to the IEA’s recent update. This is only a small fraction of their increase last year, as a strong expansion of renewables and electric vehicles is preventing a much sharper rise.
Emissions leaped last year as the world economy recovered from Covid-19 lockdowns, and there were concerns of another big rise this year, particularly with high natural gas prices pushing electricity producers to switch to coal. But our analysis of the latest data from around the world shows that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion are set to increase by close to 300 million tonnes this year to 33.8 billion tonnes – a far smaller rise than last year's jump of nearly 2 billion tonnes.
The rise in global emissions this year would be more than three times as big were it not for the major deployments of renewables electric vehicles around the world. And the relatively small increase in coal emissions has been considerably outweighed by the expansion of renewables.
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