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One of world’s biggest pension funds to stop investing in fossil fuels
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One of the world’s largest pension funds, ABP, is selling its €15bn-worth of holdings in fossil fuel companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, claiming it had been unable to persuade the sector to transition quickly eno...
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Jellied eel canapés and venison: Geen 10 hosts biggest names in business
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Boris Johnson will host 20 of the world’s most influential business leaders on Monday evening as he urges them to provide a “rocket boost” for “global Britain”, as the UK emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and life...
Sjina, coal and COP26: can the world’s biggest emitter give up its dirty habit?
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When he was a little boy in the 1980s, Wang Xiaojun was taught to be proud of his home town of Lüliang in the north-western Chinese province of Shanxi. Shanxi is China’s biggest coal-producing region, and Lüliang was ...
Australia’s biggest industry group calls on Morrison government to halve emissions by 2030
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Australia’s biggest industry association has called on the Morrison government to set a target of cutting the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 to join the global “mainstream” on the climate crisis. I...
The five biggest threats to our natural world … and how we can stop them
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The world’s wildlife populations have plummeted by more than two-thirds since 1970 – and there are no signs that this downward trend is slowing. The first phase of Cop15 talks in Kunming this week will lay the groundw...
UK’s biggest poultry supplier warns of big rise in price of chicken
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The owner of the UK’s biggest poultry supplier has warned that the cost of chicken is expected to rise by more than 10%, adding that food in Britain is “too cheap.” In a strongly worded intervention, Ranjit Singh Bopa...
Squid Game is Netflix’s biggest debut hit, reaching 111m viewers worldwide
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Dystopian South Korean drama Squid Game has become Netflix’s most popular series ever, drawing 111 million fans since its debut less than four weeks ago, the streaming service said Tuesday. The unprecedented global vi...
Jacinda Ardern facing biggest challenge yet as New Zealand switches to Covid suppression
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Hierdie week, New Zealand’s locked down cities woke to a brave new world of lifted restrictions: state-sanctioned picnics in parks, the prospect of reopening schools, a chance to reunite with friends and family. Infusing...
Money from ‘world’s biggest bribe scandal’ invested in UK property
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They are the British-Iranian family behind what has been called the “world’s biggest bribe scandal”. Vir 17 jare, Cyrus Ahsani and his brother Saman Ahsani worked as fixers for multinationals such as Rolls-Royce, bri...
Tories order biggest shake-up of NHS leadership in England for 40 jare
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The Conservatives have ordered a shake-up of NHS leadership in England on the eve of their party conference, with Sajid Javid saying that with more funding must come “change for the better”. The health secretary said ...
‘I want to live’: Oleksandr Usyk ready for time off after biggest fight
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The new champion walked in first, just after one in the morning, with his face bearing the brutal realities of heavyweight boxing. Despite his dominant defeat of Anthony Joshua on Saturday night at the Tottenham Hotsp...
Lil Nas X: Montero review – pop-rap at its proudest, biggest and best
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Lil Nas X’s debut album Montero arrives accompanied by not one, but two huge advertising tie-ins. In the first commercial, he shills Taco Bell’s Toasted Breakfast Burritos in a pink pompadour wig. Then there’s a serie...
Man behind world’s biggest source of child abuse imagery is jailed for 27 jare
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A man described by US authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child sexual abuse images at the time of his arrest in Ireland has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. Eric Eoin Marques, 36, create...
Muscles and methane: How protein became the food industry’s biggest craze
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At the Protein Pick and Mix store in Tunbridge Wells, you can have any snack you like, as long as it comes with extra protein. Protein pancakes, protein burger buns, protein muffins, protein nachos, protein croissants...
World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland
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The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock started has running, the companies behind the project said on Wednesday. The plant, named Orca after the Icelandic word “o...