G7 energy ministers have called on the Opec group of oil-producing countries to pump more oil as Russia’s war in Ukraine pushes crude prices to their highest levels in a decade. The call was contained in the final communique of a meeting of G7 energy and environment ministers in Germany, which holds the rotating presidency…
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This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from around the FT Since its inception, the World Economic Forum here in Davos has been widely seen…
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Sony expects to supply imaging sensors to 15 of the world’s top 20 global automakers by 2025, underscoring the company’s ambitions for electric vehicles and autonomous driving as it tries to diversify beyond mobile phones. The Japanese conglomerate flagged its intention to accelerate a push into the auto industry in 2020 when it unveiled a…
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HSBC suspends banker over Nutjob climate change comments Stuart Kirk certainly made some injudicious comments about climate change but why suspend him when what he said was common sense. I am not a climate change zealot but that does not mean that I don’t believe in climate change. I just have faith that technology will…
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GlaxoSmithKline’s ViiV Healthcare is “actively negotiating” a voluntary licence on the patents for its injectable HIV prevention drug to make it more widely available in poorer nations, where fewer than a third of those at risk are on prophylactic treatment. Deborah Waterhouse, ViiV chief executive, said in an interview that the GSK majority-owned drugmaker was…
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As the managing director who brought smartphone vendor Xiaomi to India in 2014, Manu Kumar Jain was the face of the Chinese-owned company. He even danced in its ad campaigns. Under Jain, Xiaomi’s rise was swift. It jumped from 6 per cent of India’s smartphone market in 2016 to 27 per cent three years later,…
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You could be forgiven for thinking that gas-guzzling, high-living Formula One would have to be dragged kicking and screaming towards net zero emissions targets. But for the high-performance engineers who are the backbone of the sport, the climate challenge is an irresistible problem to solve. “It is a daunting task because we are exploring frontiers…
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A perfect storm looms for federally qualified health centers whenever the federal government decides the COVID-19 public health emergency is over. When that declaration ends, which isn’t likely to happen until at least October, many community health center patients are expected to lose Medicaid coverage, which will leave clinics without reimbursement for services they provide.…
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CVS Health’s new digital platform intends to give consumers access to health services on demand, whether they are at home or in a retail or community-based setting. Eligible Aetna and CVS Caremark members will be able to use CVS Health Virtual Primary Care to request remote primary care, chronic condition management and mental health services, in…
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A bipartisan group of Senate Finance Committee leaders on Thursday proposed expanding telehealth access for mental health services. The committee issued a discussion draft that pushes to eliminate Medicare’s in-person visit requirement prior to patients seeking online mental health services. This requirement has not gone into effect due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. But when the…
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