A slogan of climate activists outside the COP26 summit in Glasgow this week has been: “Keep 1.5 alive.” It refers to a goal in the 2015 Paris accord to try to limit global warming to a safer 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The chances of hitting that target now, following a dearth of leadership from the…
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The man who helped create Twitter, a social network designed for brevity and instant gratification, is now preaching the virtues of patience and long-term thinking in tech investment. Biz Stone, along with business partner and investor Fred Blackford, sees that as the grounding philosophy behind Future Positive, the multi-stage investment firm the pair founded in…
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Lockdown loneliness created unprecedented demand for four-legged friends during the pandemic. Almost 13m households in the US got a new pet between March and December last year, according to the American Pet Products Association. Animal health companies, which make products ranging from flea collars to deworming medicine and pet vaccines, have emerged as particularly big…
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President Joe Biden’s new rule that healthcare employers must vaccinate their workforces against COVID-19 or face the loss of Medicare and Medicaid revenue has provoked predictable objections from Republicans, two senior lawmakers said Thursday. The GOP will seek ways to block the regulation, including subjecting it to a Congressional Review Act resolution vote on the…
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You do not go to a climate change conference for the laughs, so I was pleased to come across a global warming joke just a few days into the COP26 summit here in Glasgow. It was told at a gathering of financiers on the COP sidelines by Sir Martin Smith, the investment banker whose family…
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Aiyana Skoles was one of thousands of young climate campaigners who marched through Glasgow on Friday to call for drastic action on climate change. Her call on COP26 negotiators in the Scottish city: an immediate halt to the use of fossil fuels — regardless of the effect on the economy. “We can’t eat money, so we…
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The Bank of England has set out plans to refocus its £20bn holdings of corporate bonds on greener companies, as part of its new remit to support the UK’s transition to net zero emissions. The central bank said that in future, companies would need to meet climate-related criteria for their bonds to be included in…
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Scientists and doctors are becoming more optimistic that the current wave of UK Covid-19 infections peaked in late October, in contrast to some other European countries where cases are rising fast. On Friday the weekly infection survey by the Office for National Statistics showed the number of people in England, Wales and Scotland testing positive…
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