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To ease the climate crisis, first figure out what works: Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo
Duflo on why the response to Covid-19 by wealthy countries left her pessimistic, and how inequality can make fighting climate change "a political problem from hell"
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Without collaboration, green transition 'delayed by decades': IEA
Greater coordination between countries would make key green technologies cheaper for developing nations to deploy at scale
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Young hacker tricks way into Uber's system: reports
Uber put out word of the breach late Thursday in a tweet, and a hacker claiming to be 18 years old then posted screenshots taken from inside Uber computers
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How LinkedIn became a place to overshare
Since the start of the pandemic, as office workers missed in-person interactions with colleagues, many people turned to LinkedIn to help make up for what they had lost, and the lines between work and personal updates became blurry
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British money to condiment jars: The cost of the royal makeover from Queen Elizabeth II to King Charles III
Queen Elizabeth II's image is ubiquitous. Her face is on British money — the blue 5-pound notes, the bronze 1-pound coin. It's on post boxes and stamps. The royal arms is on condiment jars and jackets. But before long, the visage of King Charles III will replace his mother's in official and unofficial capacities
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Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Versailles to turn off lights early in energy savings push
Energy prices across Europe have skyrocketed in recent months, in part because of the turbulence in energy markets caused by Russia's war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions slapped on Russia, a top energy producer
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Cracking down on a Wall Street trend: ESG makeovers
ESG fund makeovers have become the trend du jour on Wall Street: BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, are among 90 mutual funds and ETFs that have rebranded themselves as ESG dedicated funds, seeking to cash in on growing investor demand for such investments. But what may have seemed like a harmless marketing move is now causing some eyebrow raising
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Royal funerals: pomp, pageantry and sometimes privacy
Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour
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Fossil fuel reserves contain 3.5 tn tonnes of CO2: database
Burning the fossil fuel reserves would release seven times the remaining carbon budget to cap global heating at 1.5C
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What price is right? Why capping Russian oil is complicated
Setting the price will require aligning the complex array of economic and diplomatic forces that govern volatile oil markets.
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Can 'the Merge' save crypto
Many crypto fans hope that it will turn things around for the crypto movement, which has been besieged in the past year by trillions of dollars in losses, a string of major scams and hacks and a new wave of regulatory scrutiny