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COP26: too many tagalongs, too high a carbon footprint

Few climate conference delegates travel by private jet these days, as Bill Gates did in 2015. Yet big environmental meetings usually have big carbon footprints. The UN’s COP26, which starts in Glasgow on Sunday, will be no exception. In the past three UN climate conferences, emissions from long-distance travel averaged 85 per cent of the…
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30 October 2021 0

COP26: too many tagalongs, too high a carbon toll

Few climate conference delegates travel by private jet these days, as Bill Gates did in 2015. Yet big environmental meetings usually have big carbon footprints. The UN’s COP26, which starts in Glasgow on Sunday, will be no exception. In the past three UN climate conferences, emissions from long-distance travel averaged 85 per cent of the…
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30 October 2021 0

US stocks close out best month of the year

Wall Street stocks staged a late rally to retrace early losses on Friday and post their best monthly performance of the year, despite disappointing results from Apple and Amazon reviving questions about labour shortages, supply squeezes and, in turn, persistently high inflation. The blue-chip S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell in morning trading, but…
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29 October 2021 0