Mark Carney, co-chair of Gfanz, talking tough on climate finance.
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Banks are making inroads with investments, but that’s only one third of their activity.
Climate finance can help developing countries cut their emissions.
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Early investments generate rapid cost reductions, while further delay simply slows innovation and compounds the climate crisis.
Does too much sleep really increase your risk of cognitive decline?
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The researchers found that people who slept less than 4.5 hours and more than 6.5 hours every night had a greater risk of cognitive decline.
Boris Johnson, Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden led the pledge to cut methane emissions.
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Cutting methane emissions by 30% will help slow climate change in the short-term but could compromise longer-term goals.
A scene from the First Anglo-Dutch War, from British Battles on Land and Sea, by James Grant.
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Years of bitter words and dodgy use of history eventually became the foundations of the modern law of the sea.
Is it a form of masochism?
We may not be attracted to movie violence as much as people think.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (pictured) was inundated with libel suits before she was killed.
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Journalists and whistleblowers are being targeted by expensive lawsuits to stop them working.
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Is Dune scientifically plausible? We ran a climate model to find out.
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Saudi Arabia and soon Australia are making net zero pledges, but they have no plans to wind down fossil fuel output soon.
The crypto wars are hotting up.
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Ethereum’s Altair upgrade is about to go live, in a big step towards a faster, greener ethereum 2.0.
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Do you regularly find yourself scrolling through COVID news stories on social media, and can’t tear yourself away? You’re not alone.
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Just like in real life, the idea that everyone in the game has a fair shot is quickly exposed as a fallacy.
A greenhouse in Switzerland which grows food using CO₂ captured from outside.
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Removing carbon from the atmosphere is as much a social problem as a technical one.
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With commercial spaceflight companies now taking older people to space, it’s timely to consider the potential physical impact space flight might have on them.
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Running a successful club requires more than money. But the money certainly helps.
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At first glance, the polls suggest the government isn’t feeling the pressure. But there’s another way to look at the situation.
People power.
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David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens pushed economics closer to the traditional sciences with experiments that mimicked the randomised trials in drug tests.
Be prepared: Taiwan’s defence strategy is a mix of conventional and asymmetric warfare.
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Taipei’s military strategists plan to use ‘asymmetrical warfare’ in the hope of imposing crippling casualties and costs on any attacker.
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Rising household debt in South Korea is crippling many and Squid Game speaks to this very real horror facing many in the country.
Would we see Neanderthals (right) as human if they were around today?
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What looks like a bright, sharp dividing line between humans and other animals is really an artefact of extinction.