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Everyone loves a public feud. From reality TV to fights in a hockey rink, it’s human nature to crave drama, which is why the public feud between Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has become so popular. What’s the reason behind this feud, and where do the two CEOs stand
Today’s ESG Updates Flight Costs Increase as Oil Disruption Raises Jet Fuel Prices: Iran war-driven supply shocks add over $100 per long-haul passenger, with airlines warning of higher fares and disruptions. Europe’s Train Booking System Restricts Rail Travel: Nearly half of major routes are hard or impossible to book, limiting rail’s competitiveness versus flights. Germany
Today’s ESG Updates EU Drafts an Urgent Plan to Find Jet Fuel: European aviation is exceptionally vulnerable to the current halt in traffic through the strait and the executives are starting to search for new suppliers. Apple Shares Environmental Progress: The company is increasing energy efficiency, swapping for carbon-neutral materials, yet brought down by shipping
Today’s ESG Updates Australia Revises Carbon Capture Plan: Woodside withdraws and prepares to resubmit its CCS project under updated environmental laws. India Speeds Up Renewables Amid Gas Shortage: Gas supply disruptions push India to fast-track wind and storage projects and increase coal output. Nigeria Fuel Prices Surge Despite New Refinery: Record gasoline prices highlight continued
In March 2022, the European Parliament released a legislative proposal to strengthen consumer rights, with the main focus on updating EU consumer protection rules, in order to “empower customers to act in favour of the green transition.” “This proposal aims to strengthen the fight against greenwashing by banning practices that mislead consumers on the actual
Forty years ago, workers’ movements began to sink in the United States, under the pressure of neoliberal politics that privileged the entrepreneur over the worker as the personification of the “American dream”. Big business regularly won and the trade unions that had helped create the American middle class after World War II became a faint
A humanitarian crisis is brewing at the Polish-Belarus border as refugees used as political pawns between European powers are dying from hypothermia and exhaustion. At the time of writing, five migrants have died at the border as temperatures plummet. “Confused, weak and exhausted people are being left in the forests, with no hope for help
The Lithuanian border authorities have had to deal with over 3,300 migrants this year, a substantial increase that has been blamed as an “act of aggression that is aimed to provoke” by the Belarus government and its long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko. In July, Lithuania declared a state of emergency at its border, accusing Lukashenko of
Update 14 June, 8:30 pm: Just out, the communiqué from the NATO meeting in Brussels attended by President Biden. At the urging of the American President, the language is stronger than the one used by the G7 leaders that had criticised Beijing over human rights in its Xinjiang region, called for Hong Kong to keep
Courtesy of the pandemic, the G7 meeting – hosted by the United Kingdom this weekend on the Cornish coast in southern England, calling together the leaders of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – is going to be one-of-a-kind. As Biden said upon boarding his plane, “The U.S. is back”. It’s also
The EU Green Week is coming, from May 31 to June 4, so it seems appropriate to talk about Europe’s unique role in climate change. Europe is divided along geopolitical and economic lines, between the haves and have-nots, between the more and the less advanced economies, which raise issues in addressing climate change that are