Conventional wisdom holds that cleaning up a company’s environmental record is more expensive than paying fines, settling with plaintiffs, or dodging the liability altogether. That understanding guided decades of corporate …
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US president Joe Biden signed a stack of climate-related executive orders on Jan. 27, rewriting federal policies on everything from national security and ocean conservation to relief for coal-reliant communities …
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Almost 10 months to the day after the UK first imposed a national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, British prime minister Boris Johnson is tightening the rules governing …
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The decision of big brands and banks to pull money from Republican politicians who agitated against the outcome of the US presidential election was a major story after the storming …
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that it is keeping the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock” at 100 seconds to midnight. (In the parlance of the Doomsday …
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The US is running up debt like never before, and one of the reasons Washington can get away with it is because interest rates are hovering around their lowest levels …
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On Jan. 25, the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank simultaneously signaled their intent to make climate considerations a central part of finance. Both say they will now analyze …
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India’s union budget, which will be announced on Feb. 1, will need to account for the country’s vast and ambitious Covid-19 vaccination programme. India approved two coronavirus vaccines for emergency …
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Italy was hit hard by Covid-19. In March, its northern city of Bergamo, then the site of the world’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreak, became a global symbol of the pandemic, as …
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Former US president Donald Trump’s last minute controversial removal of sanctions against an Israeli businessman named in corruption scandals in DR Congo’s mining industry and the jailing of another international …
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