A UN trade body sees global growth at 2.7% for this year and next, down from an average 3% in the period 2001 to 2019. This would hit poorer countries hard, UNCTAD, the UN organization that focuses on the trade of developing countries, said in Geneva on Tuesday. Countries with resources needed for the green transition could benefit from global trade, it said. These include rare earths, cobalt, lithium and nickel. But new ways of thinking were needed to help poorer countries at a time of low growth, high debt, lacking investment and growing protectionism in richer countries, UNCTAD said. The or…