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Today’s ESG Updates The Future of Germany’s Natural Gas Usage: McKinsey researchers have estimated that Germany’s gas usage will decline by 3%-7% by 2030 Spain’s Criteria Will Buy 5% Stake In France’s Veolia: The holding vehicle company will hold a 5% stake in the French waste and water management company Iberdrola Strikes Deal With Pam
We are living through an age of disruption. The postwar consensus that liberal democracy, free markets and open societies were the “only game in town” has been steadily eroded by crisis after crisis. The September 11 attacks crushed Western hopes of a post-Cold War world united by faith in liberal capitalism. The financial crash of
While global attention is focused elsewhere, Serbia’s student movement for health sector reform deserves notice. These students argue that social well-being depends not only on economic opportunity and political fairness, but also on environmental protection, education, and community health. They want a voice in shaping the health system that will influence their future, and have
By the time today’s primary school kids are old enough to drive, there could be nearly two billion cars on the road, yet only 8% of them will be pure electric. That leaves a stubborn problem: what do we burn in the hundreds of millions of engines that are not going away any time soon?
Today’s ESG Updates Higher Threat of Shocks to the Economy: The ECB warns of the high level of threats to the economy from different contributing factors. Avian Influenza: Researchers and doctors assure that it is unlikely to affect humans on a large scale and vaccines would be more available. A photosynthetic bacterium: Common microbe reveals
Today’s ESG Updates EU Nears 2030 Climate Target: The EU is on track to reduce emissions by 54% by 2030, just one percentage point shy of its 55% goal from 1990 levels. Brazil Sues BYD Over Labor Abuse: BYD faces a $45M lawsuit in Brazil for “slavery-like” conditions and alleged human trafficking of Chinese workers.
Air pollution remains a leading environmental threat to human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 99% of the global population lives in areas that do not meet the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline level, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries. IQAir’s 2024 World Air Quality Report, released on March 11, gathered data from
Today’s ESG Updates BP Shares Rise From Activist Fund: Elliott Management has invested in BP, which has led to a bump in share value. Porsche Invest in ICE Engines: Porsche abandons full EV plans in favour of refocusing on combustion and hybrid engines. HSBC Allocate New Sustainability Officer: HSBC announces Julian Wentzel as the new
With a day until the most divisive and hotly contested US presidential election in recent memory, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is contributing to the flood of misinformation around the candidates and the issues. While research around this area is limited, confected images to “expose” scandals or laud candidates for their heroic, if fictional, acts can raise public
I don’t know about you, but I am always setting forth to carry out ethical resolutions based on my personal values and, well, not quite making it. Long ago, I adopted Stoic Philosopher Marcus Aurelius’s advice to reason out two or three brief “rules of life” and then (try to) live by them. Here’s a
For several years now there’s been a buzz around meatless meat. Food tech experts have long been trying to produce meat from plants, in an all-out effort to make vegans happy. In the past, we’ve reported several such attempts but now, with the rise of AI and 3D food printing, many food tech champions have
How is it that, in a country founded on the separation of church and state, religious groups play such an important role in American political life? As a young married woman in the 1960s, I knew that the Civil Rights Movement I admired had a religious element and that, while the Episcopal Church I attended