IEA Head Wants Fossil Fuel Industry To Set Climate Targets

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Fatih Birol has spent much of the last few years as head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) laying out a path for the world to decarbonize its energy use. The IEA’s recent reports have called for a dramatic scale up in financing for renewable energy and warned that the worl…

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UN Warns of Failure to Hit Climate Goals

A landmark United Nations assessment of global progress on cutting emissions shows countries are largely failing to meet their commitments, putting the planet on course for catastrophic global warming.

The UN’s climate change secretariat calculated the progress every country in the world has made on their pledges to reduce emissions and assessed how much it’s helping to tackle global …

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What IBD Patients Want Their Doctors to Know

People who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—which is the umbrella term for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—often experience a range of symptoms, from intense abdominal cramping and pain to persistent diarrhea and overwhelming fatigue. Living with IBD can significantly disrupt everyday life and make it challenging to maintain physical and mental wellbeing.

The…

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Amazon may face EU antitrust charges over merchant data in coming weeks – source

The European Commission has been investigating the U.S. online retailer’s dual role as a marketplace for merchants and as a rival since July last year, triggered by complaints from traders about Amazon’s practices.The probe also focuses on how Amazon uses competitively sensitive merchant data to select winners for its “buy box”, which allows customers to add items from a specific retailer direc…

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Canary swimwear focuses on global expansion together with Fashion Council Germany

Along with the British, Germans make up the majority of tourists that flock to Gran Canaria. In 2019, before the outbreak of the pandemic and the implementation of health and travel restrictions, the archipelago saw a total of 2.6 million German tourists. That number reached a record high in 2017, when the number of German visitors rose to 3.12 million, according to Statista. The Cabildo of Gra…

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Designer Brands commits $2 million to first Black-owned U.S. footwear factory

Located in Detroit, PLC is the first and only Historically Black College & University (HBCU) in Michigan and the first HBCU with a focus on design. As part of the partnership, Designer Brands will invest in the first Black-owned footwear factory in the United States – JEMS by Pensole – to produce shoes designed by PLC graduate students, to be sold exclusively at DSW. “We see the footwear…

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Amazon executive says company welcomes scrutiny of big tech

“Substantial entities in the economy deserve scrutiny, and our job is to build the kind of company that passes that scrutiny,” Jeff Wilke, the CEO of Amazon’s consumer business, said at a press conference in Las Vegas.A report by news site Vox on Tuesday said the U.Sคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บ…

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Filippa K, Mistra Future Fashion support eco fashion

The idea of this project is to implement insights from Mistra Future Fashion in a real fashion industry context, focusing on speed of use and maximizing fabric value retention in products. The project is expected to generate meaningful and industry-aligned insights towards a ‘systemic change’ in the fashion industry.”We want to be able to enjoy fashion and update our wardrobes in a conscious wa…

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In a Nike factory in Argentina’s hinterland, the ghost of Macri’s fall

When his key card for the turnstile failed, Aquino realized the rumors were true. The plant was cutting hundreds of workers as orders from the U.S. apparel giant stalled, amid a swirling economic crisis that has plunged the country into recession for most of the last year.The Nike factory in Misiones province, one of Argentina’s poorest, is proving to be the tip of the icebergคำพูด…

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France sees global tax deal on digital giants in 2019

Some 127 countries and territories agreed last month to tackle some of the most disputed issues of international taxation, such as where digital firms’ cross-border income should be taxed.France has spearheaded efforts at the EU and on the international level to change rules that currently enable companies such as Facebook and Google to reduce their tax bills by booking revenue in low-tax cou…

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