According to the head of global airline body IATA, the global airlines will be prompted to raise its own environmental goals because of increasing backlash of activists and investors of oil majors against the companies’ ‘green’ shift which is seen… Read More ›
Day: May 29, 2021
New Report Calls For Tripling Green Investments By 2030
The State of Finance for Nature Report suggested that the world needs to triple its investment in nature-based solutions by 2030 while increasing them by four times by 2050 to avoid irreversible damage to economies, the planet and humanity itself… Read More ›
Covid-19 Origin Probes Being ‘Poisoned By Politics’, Says WHO
The probes to find out the origin of the Covid-19 causing novel coronavirus are being “poisoned by politics”m said a top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. This Wednesday, United States president Joe Biden announced that he… Read More ›
Brazil Facing Worst Dry Spell In 91 Years, Put On Drought Alert
With Brazil facing its worst dry spell in 91 years, the government agencies of the country have issued warnings of droughts in the country this week. That has caused concerns and fears of measures such as energy rationing, hitting hydroelectric… Read More ›
DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the Justice Department’s budget gets boost from the President
In a significant development U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed a hike of 11% in budgetary funding for the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, both of which have filed major lawsuits against big tech companies in… Read More ›
European Commission fines ICAP $7.9M for yen cartel
On Friday, antitrust regulators from the European Union levied a fine of $7.9 million (6.45 million euros) on the world’s largest interdealer broker ICAP for taking part in several yen interest rate derivatives cartels. In 2015, although the European Commission… Read More ›