1. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change has released its first major scientific assessment of climate change since 2014. The global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius may be a decade earlier, indicating that global warming is faster than originally feared, and it is almost entirely due to human causes. The possibility of a sharp response and a critical turning point in the climate system cannot be ruled out. Unless there are short-term, rapid and large-scale emission reduction measures, the global temperature control target of 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius will not be achieved.

2. In the first half of 2021, global container ship construction orders surged 11-fold compared with the same period last year, reaching the second highest level in half-year history. Under COVID-19 ‘s epidemic situation, the rise in freight rates has promoted the improvement of the income of shipping enterprises, and various enterprises have invested in shipbuilding one after another. It is estimated that there is a risk of a downturn when ship construction is completed and put on the market in 2023-2024. The construction price of container ships is also rising, and the revenue environment of the shipping industry is still volatile.

3. South Korea’s “Central Daily”: in June, 4240 housing transactions were sold in Seoul, of which buyers under the age of 30 accounted for 5.5%, the highest since the statistics began in January 2019. In addition, as people under the age of 30 do not have enough income and loans to buy houses, more and more young people are relying on their fathers to buy real estate.

4. The Economist: a crash will deal a heavy blow to the virtual monetary economy. If Bitcoin crashes, the result is that a lot of wealth is destroyed, and the total amount of wealth erased will exceed the total market value of digital assets. The collapse will also wipe out the private investment of virtual currency companies such as exchanges (estimated at $37 billion now) and the wealth of virtual currency listed companies (worth about $90 billion).

5. World Health Organization: every year, more than 8 million people die as a result of smoking and exposure to smoke. Worryingly, e-cigarettes are still being sold as health products. Call for stricter regulations on the marketing of e-cigarettes. Measures should be taken to minimize the potential risks of these devices to users and others, and the tobacco industry should be prohibited from using unverified health statements to sell e-cigarette products.

6. Scientists at Seoul University in South Korea have developed a software robot that can change color in real time with the surrounding environment, inspired by the chameleon. The technology uses color sensors, miniature heaters made of silver nanowires and thermochromic materials, and the robot can sensitively detect local background color changes. Compared with the previous discoloration robot technology, the technology of this robot is cheap, and it can be used in many real situations, such as military investigation, making camouflage clothes and so on, which marks a great leap forward in wearable camouflage technology.

7. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change has released its first major scientific assessment of climate change since 2014. The global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius may be a decade earlier, indicating that global warming is faster than originally feared, and it is almost entirely due to human causes. The possibility of a sharp response and a critical turning point in the climate system cannot be ruled out. Unless there are short-term, rapid and large-scale emission reduction measures, the global temperature control target of 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius will not be achieved.

8. The Tokyo metropolitan government announced Monday that a man in his 60s died after being infected with COVID-19 after receiving two doses of COVID-19 vaccine in June, Kyodo news agency reported. This is the first death in Tokyo after two doses of vaccine.

9. New Zealand Real Estate Association: in July, the median home price in New Zealand reached a record NZ $826000, up 25.2 per cent from a year earlier. In that month, the median house price in Auckland was NZ $1.175 million, an all-time high, up 28% from a year earlier. Since March, the New Zealand government has introduced a series of policies to cool the real estate market.

10. Associated Press: on Aug. 10, local time, a large Nissan plant in Tennessee will be closed for two weeks starting Aug. 16. This is the longest shutdown of a larger car factory in the United States since the chip shortage began to affect global car production at the end of last year. Due to the “lack of core”, US automobile and parts production shrank by 22.5% in the second quarter compared with the same period last year.

11. At 13:14 local time, a monitoring station in Sicily, Italy, measured a high temperature of 48.8C. Italian meteorological experts said that if further confirmed, it would be the highest temperature in European history. Due to high temperatures in many places in southern Italy, from the 10th to the 11th night, firefighters received reports of more than 300 fires. The meteorological department predicts that the high temperature may reach its peak on the 13th, and the Italian government has declared a state of emergency.